Sending emails with non ASCII characters from ASP

2006.09.22, Fri by fritz

To have an ASP page send an email with non-ASCII European text (Cyrillic, Greek, Czech, etc) you’ll need to use UTF-8.

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Machuca

2006.07.27, Thu by fritz

2004, Chile, Dir: Andrés Wood
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A look at Chilean society during the end of the Allende era told trough the eyes of two kids from opposite social background. Well made but perhaps a bit slow and melodramatic, it is worth seeing if you are interested in journey through a different time and culture. Read the rest of this entry »

Reading multi language text in Microsoft Office

2006.07.27, Thu by fritz

Reading documents with Cyrillic text is a breeze on a Mac, but with MS Office it can be a right pain the backside, so if your company does business in the Russian market it can be very frustrating. Here’s a quick tip on how to read multi language characters - to write Cyrllic and co, you’ll have to buy a license.

It is the Microsoft Way.

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Ghost in the Shell

2006.07.25, Tue by fritz

1995, Japan, Dir: Mamoru Oshii
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Classic cyberpunk caper in the Akira league, with great visual ideas, a rushed plot and diabolical soundtrack and dubbing. Definitively worth seeing if you like good animation Read the rest of this entry »

Kika, Highbury And Islington

2006.07.13, Thu by fritz

228 St. Pauls Road, Islington, LONDON, N1 2LJ [ Read the rest of this entry »

Serving an Excel Worksheet to a browser.

2006.06.23, Fri by fritz

Writing an excel worksheet to a browser is pretty simple - all you need is the correct response type, and to format the data using an HTML table.

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Handling dates in Javascript

2006.06.23, Fri by fritz

onEnterFrame vs. setInterval

2006.05.31, Wed by fritz

Which one is better for code that should repeat at at intervals, onEnterFrame or setInterval?

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Skewing random numbers towards 0

2006.05.29, Mon by fritz

A quick way to skew random numbers towards 0 is to raise them to some powers - the higher the power, the higher the skew.

var num:Number    = Math.pow( Math.random(), 2 );

My del.icio.us bookmarklet

2006.05.15, Mon by fritz

I like Alan Marklet's Maker, the tool that let you create bookmarklets to add links to del.icio.us. But I wanted something that let me either use some text I highlighted in the page, or else the description meta-tag. So I hacked the original bookmarklet and made it my own. Shame that WordPress won't let me publish in a useful format.
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