X-ray Scotch Tape

???? Yes if you peel scotch tape in a vacuum it emits x-rays that are powerful enough to actually use with x-ray film. A couple of scientists in California discovered this and even took an x-ray of their finger to prove it. They say that it’s safe to use tape in your office because the radiation doesn’t happen in the presence of air, but if you need to fix a vacuum chamber with scotch tape you need to be careful.

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Sun’s VirtualBox

Does this look strange to you, it should but thanks to Sun’s VirualBox you can accomplish this. What is this you ask? Well it’s running a virtual machine in seamless mode, one of VirtualBox’s features. What does this matter though. Well instead of having to constantly switch back and forth between a virtual machine and your host machine when doing testing you have easy access to both. I’ve uploaded a few screenshots to show what I mean.

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CSS Tip: Image Rollover effect


After working on wordpress themes for a while I’ve come across a few stylesheet techniques and figured I’d share so I’ve started a new category of posts. I’ll continue below.

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WordPress 2.7 Comment Threading

Thanks to Otto for this great post on the heads up on the new comment system for WordPress 2.7. After I read this I decided to get ahead of the curve and switch my Techozoic theme over to the new threaded commenting. I decided to take it a little further and separate pings and trackbacks from regular comments. At first this wasn’t working but after a quick email to the wp-testers list Ryan whipped up a fix for it. Anyway I figured I would explain how I did this. I continue below.

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Another New Linux Guide Page

Unlocking Locked Network Files

Although this one is short I think it could be very useful to those that need it. It doesn’t come up often but when it does it’s extremely frustrating.

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