Archive for January, 2008


Standup/Lock

As a habit now, every time I stand up from the computer, I press the hotkey to lock the computer (yes, even when I am the only one around at home). It hit me, why not automate this. A sensor you can have on the chair that would lock the machine when it detects you […]

Cleanup Time

Looks like it’s time for me do a total cleanup of my things, both virtual and in the physical world.

Room Cleanup (load of empty boxes, anyone want any?)
Door-Desk, two of them for the room
New Book shelves, having a space issue now
3TB worth of data to be organized, and the countless number of cd and dvd […]

Weakness in Captcha

Captcha is a system widely used in web forms to differentiate between humans and bots. I won’t go into detail how it works but you can read it on Wikipedia. Many people try to defeat this system by writing very advanced character recognition software but there seems to be a very large hole in this […]