http://rezio.com I wonder what would happen if ... Wed, 05 May 2010 09:58:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Find raw data for 2.7 million cities. Import it into MySql. Generate Pov-ray data to render each city as a tiny red sphere on a large black sphere. http://rezio.com/?p=101 I can't remember when I first saw a LEGO brick.  There was a LEGO set at my grandmother's house, and as far as I knew, it had always been there. It provided countless hours of entertainment. I built things, and then destroyed them, and then did it again. The disassembly was usually ... http://rezio.com/?p=54 During my Christmas trip to the US, I bought a new Sony VAIO. This is my second VAIO. The first was a fantastic little z505 that I used for almost ten years. It was a 386 with 256mb of RAM, so it way very much showing its age, but it ... http://rezio.com/?p=26 It's becoming more and more clear that Google understands the importance of innovation and optimization much better than other companies, and much better than Microsoft in particular. Innovation is a term that is overused, but it does not and should not be used to mean clobbering a truly innovative idea with ... http://rezio.com/?p=23 So I moved from the doomed UplinkEarth to ReliableSite.net, which is cheap and impressive. And then, almost immediately, they had the biggest set of downtimes in their history (that's what they say, but others tend to verify that). We're talking days here. My sites were down for 48 hours, then ... http://rezio.com/?p=21 Michael Yablonowitz is the CEO of UplinkEarth, the company that, until recently, I happily used to host this site. Until about six months ago, when service and up-time took a dive. But, in his own words, "I took ingenuity and penny-pinching to a new level." It shouldn't surprise anyone then, ... http://rezio.com/?p=20 I've been using Jetbrains Resharper for seven months now, and continue to find fantastic shortcuts. I can't imagine going back to programming without it. It doesn't just make things easier, it dramatically increases the likelihood that you'll tackle important changes to your code base. Press ALT-INSERT and a window pops up that let's you ... http://rezio.com/?p=19 I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.   - Stephen Hawking http://rezio.com/?p=18 I've learned a lot about web programming since taking this job. I knew C# already, but ASP.NET, XML, AJAX, and all that was new. I didn't know any Javascript either, nor did I understand what an important role it plays on the web. But that changed this week, when I ... http://rezio.com/?p=17 Progress on the gallery itself has slowed, what with the holidays and everything, but there have been related events. For one thing, the hosting company that I've been using happily for five years has become really unreliable. "UplinkEarth", as they call themselves, has a lot of features and used to be ... http://rezio.com/?p=16