Gordaen's Blog

I’ve been developing my own blog software based on CodeIgniter in order to fill my few free minutes (though I’m also painting and taking on a lot of other projects; not unusual for me). I spent more than a week up front just brainstorming, thinking about what I want it to do. After that, I [...]

I noticed a few headlines lately about Apple receiving flak, particularly from Mozilla, for slipping an install of Safari onto people’s Windows machines. Personally, I find that Apple products work well with Apple products, but they rarely work as well on Windows. I wanted to give Safari a quick try on my laptop, which can [...]

Update: According to the IE blog, the IE team has changed its stance from what it was (as described in this post) to a more logical one. I intended to do another blog post about it, but other things in life have been more interesting (like getting sleep since I’ve been a bit ill). They [...]

I recently bought two new 19″ monitors (with a nice 1680×1050 resolution each). I was surprised that I simply plugged them both in and started the computer and Gnome was correctly displaying a cloned image (i.e., the same thing on both screens) at the correct resolution on both monitors. Unfortunately, getting them to work as [...]

I’ve always been intrigued by the similarities between a computer and a human brain. I also find it fascinating that DNA is essentially a program for saying how our cells should develop. However, more interesting than either of those is the possibility of completely creating a synthetic life form by essentially building DNA the way [...]