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Nick's Place

Nick's Place: WebLog: April 2003 Archive

April 02, 2003

Bush's craziness

Offensive Interference How war distracts from outlandish Bush policies -- Here's a different idea for why Bush is fighting the war -- not for Oil, but so he can actually do something.

Posted by nickb at 05:00 PM

April 08, 2003

Number Bases

Number Bases Lesson - I've was playing around with a way to store numbers in a more compact but still ASCII format, and it just dawned on me! Base 62 (26 letters * 2 cases = 52 + 10 digits) was what I needed. I looked for functions around, but none of them are good. My function will be posted soon, (it was insanely easy to write) but for now here is the page I found to be the most help.

Posted by nickb at 08:57 AM

Libera Manifesto

The Libera Manifesto -- From all of us who are free net service providers.

Posted by nickb at 04:19 PM

April 13, 2003

I'll let this speak for itself

Hold the Phone, It's a Sex Toy

Posted by nickb at 02:54 PM

April 18, 2003

UPC

Okay, its not exactly new but I just stumbled upon it. They're everywhere and ubiquitous, but here's a database of them. What are they? UPCs.... Go to the UPC Database

Posted by nickb at 04:28 PM