taw's blog

Back when I was at Universität des Saarlandes we had a great seminar at MPII . It was called "Data Processing Tips and Tricks" an...

Most computers these days are laptops. Their computing power got quite decent, and they're even becoming reasonably powerful for moderat...

I've found a weird quirk of Ruby's regular expression engine. The same quirk is present in Ruby 1.8.6, Ruby 1.9.0, and Perl 5.8.8, b...

My tooth hurt a bit in the last week, and it got really bad yesterday, so I called some 24h dental service . It wasn't as 24h as they cl...

The technique I'm presenting here is not an "awesome revolutionary breakthrough in Rails security" kind of thing (like XSS Shi...

Poland has a reputation of a stable democratic country, and indeed - pretty much everybody can vote or candidate, and there have never been ...

My dead Macbook returned with a new disk. I normally use KDE, but this time I thought it would be a good idea to try the Ubuntu's defau...

24C3 is over. Here's a quick summary of events I attended and some general impressions. Recordings of most of the events are downloadabl...

Because my hatred towards my Macbook reached unprecedented level, and I didn't take my old desktop with me to London, I' looking for...

I have just written a very small Javascript version of jrpg , which can be accessed here: Javascript version of jrpg If you want to try it o...