Daniel Von Fange

Illustrated Guide to Hashes.

It's more likely that a million people will correctly guess all the California Lottery numbers every day for a billion trillion years...

-- From the Illustrated Guide to Cryptographic Hashes

Extreme Ironing.

Extreme Ironing, the pursuit of taking photos of yourself ironing while doing crazy things.

Olympic Lines.

Favorite commentary during the opening ceremony of the olympics:

• "...the small island nation of Belize."
• "Athena, the patron saint of Athens."

Safari Javascript bug.

Posted for Google to find:

Safari does not like functions to called be called "status". If you commit such a monstrosity, execution will stop when you call your function. Naming a function "status" works fine in IE, Firefox, and Opera.

If you have javascript debugging turned on in Safari, you will see:

(result of expression status) is not object. Cannot be called.
(event handler):Value function status() 

Demonstration of problem:

<script>
function astatus(){
	document.write("will be written once")
}
function status(){
document.write("will never be written.")
}

astatus()
status()
astatus()

</script>

TeX.

I've just "discovered" TeX and LaTeX, the unix way of making pretty documents. TeX uses special codes inside a plain text document - no WYSIWYG here. I'm in love with the separation between content and presentation. In the past, for this reason, I just used HTML and CSS for writing documents.