Robert Accettura's
Fun With Wordage

One of the hardest things to program is the Date and Time. This is especially true when your doing it on the web. Why is that? Using a unix timestamp is immensely helpful and resolves many of the complexities, but it does have some issues (besides the Y2K38 bug). Well lets [...]

An interesting video of the new costumes Disney has come up with. No longer are the heads as animated as a Pez dispensers. Now the eyes and mouth move. Not only do they move, but they are in sync with the music. It’s amazing how well it’s done.
[Via: Boing Boing]

I do have a business degree, so occasionally I like to discuss how tech and business collide (yes it does happen). This time it’s about blogging and business.
Most corporate blogging is pretty poor. For the most part it’s slightly reworded press releases put on a blog-styled webpage. A few companies on the [...]

Tonight I replaced my 2+ year old LG vx6000 with a LG CU500 [Amazon]. Family plan upgrade time.
I haven’t had too much time to play with it. Perhaps later I’ll take a few test photo’s outside in daylight (if it’s not raining) and see how they look, and perhaps upload them.
I [...]

Had a little discussion last night that got me wondering, so I thought I’d post the question.
How does your company update products that offer in built-in updating functionality, like Firefox? Do you leave the functionality enabled and let the applications developer push updates to your desktop, or do you disable auto-update (I think [...]

This is just a scary image. According to the caption it’s:
One of five underground bunkers built for the East German Foreign Intelligence Service.
Take a guess what year, then click on the image to see the original which has the date on it (I cropped and scaled this one).

According to Wikipedia, the image [...]

It’s officially been released. Anyone running Windows should run Windows Update, or download the patch now. CNet has more info on the topic.
Do not wait. Install, and reboot.

After this whole mess with rootkits, I’m starting to think Sony should be giving monetary compensation to those effected. Write an app to see if the rootkit was installed, and give a confirmation number. That number should be worth some hard cash, since it appears that the only way to get rid of [...]

Asterisk@Home looks like it would be a lot of fun to set up. This could totally rock to have at home. I see a few great advantages:

Share the lines. Rather than have a phone or two per line, you can have all phones being able to access the lines. No need [...]

From InfoWorld’s Top 20 IT mistakes list:

11. Developing Web apps for IE only
Despite the fact that mission-critical applications continue their march onto the Web browser and that Windows continues to dominate the corporate desktop, Web developers should avoid the temptation to develop applications only for bug-ridden IE. IT shops that insist on using IE [...]