The Pradipta 416

So the funniest thing happened the other day (and as usual I’ve only just found the convenience to blog it). I was sitting working, minding my own business when I received yet another formulated mass post from a recruitment agent. Only this one was a little different..

I have a couple of Ruby on Rails position, wanted to know if you are interested?

Max Archie
Technical Recruiter
Prodigus Source
Cell: 219-669-9216
Phone: 312-235-2365
Max@prodigussource.com

Seems pretty normal on the face of it. Just a typical impersonal email recruiters send out to hundreds of “potential candidates” (read: anonymous list of farmed email addresses). However this agent forgot to use BCC instead of CC, and so 416 selected individuals all over the world were kindly supplied with each others email addresses.

So what did a group of complete strangers from all cultures and walks of life decide to do with this new found information? Well, for a while we laughed. And then we went a bit mad. And now you’ll find the Pradipta 416 all over the ‘net. Including, but not limited to, Twitter, FaceBook and a Google discussion group.

I love it. A community was born.

July 21, 2008 | Filed Under loves, the internets | Leave a Comment 

Screen resolution bookmarklets

I’ve been using various methods to test screen resolutions in Safari, but this is probably my favourite:

Safari screen resolutions

Just drag these links to your bookmarks bar (creating a folder to put them in if you so desire) and click them to resize Safari to the desired resolution. Simple huh?

These viewport sizes are “safe” resolutions (taking into account task bars, toolbars, status bars, menus and such) based on the most common set of browsers and operating systems, including Safari, Camino, Firefox, Omniweb, Opera, and Internet Explorer 5, 6 and 7.

Update: classic example of eating one’s own words. My colleague Daniel just sent me a mail to let me know that he’d installed my bookmarklets and discovered that my own site failed on a 1024×768 screen. D’oh! In my defense, it’s not my template, and I hadn’t actually tested it. *sheepish grin* Thanks Daniel! :-P

July 17, 2008 | Filed Under interfaces, mac, safari | 1 Comment 

RA D IO HEA_D

I meant to post this waay before now.. Read it and weep..

RA D IO HEA_D

It was freaking awesome by the way, sorry you couldn’t be there :-P

July 14, 2008 | Filed Under loves, music | 1 Comment