Nobody likes getting ripped off, and I’m no exception. I search the web from time to time to see who’s copying my stuff, and it’s always a little disheartening. This week I ran a check to see who was copying my 20-year old LZW Compression article. Mind you, I’m not talking about isolated quotes taken [...]

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Not understanding some basic rules of mathematics or logic can be a problem if you are a computer programmer. It can stand in the way of a good solution to a problem, or worse yet, can cause you to spend a lot of time working on a dead end. In the case of New Zealand [...]

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My email address shows up in a lot of public places, including domain registration records, hundreds of USENET posts, magazine articles, and various web sites. As a result, it has been harvested by every spammer known to mankind, and I get a lot of bad email. This includes more than just spam. I show up [...]

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Incredible video compression claims are a morbid fascination of mine – usually it’s obvious that the claims are going to go down in flames, and it’s just a matter of watching for the inevitable disaster. I’m using the term incredible in its literal sense, a synonym for unbelievable, which comes in to play when somebody [...]

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