Karma's Nucleus DevBlog

On twofifty.org, you can track which movies of the IMDb top 250 list you've seen. It's currently open for all in a closed beta width invites, of which I have 4 left to share. Send me your mail address and name, and I'll see what I can do for you.

By the way, twofifty.org was developed by Tim Broddin, which you might remember from the Nucleus Support Forum as JefPober or Sir_Psycho.

Spotted this on the Web Forms 2 Demo website (WHATWG Web Forms 2 Working Draft). Don't know whether it was intentional or not:

5 - 5 - 5 => 5 * 5

Did you know that the Belgian electronic identity card (eID) contains a NobleCondition field? If you're a king, knight or whatever, this field will contain a special value. Other interesting fields include the booleans WhiteCane (blind people) and YellowCane (partially sighted people).

See the Toolkit Developers guide in the Belgian eID Toolkit SDK download for more info.

My personal computer appears to be plagued by a hardware failure, probably something to do with the hard disk. For some hours now, a spontaneous reboot has occured about once every 30 10 minutes on average. Not so fun if you're in the middle of doing something :(

Update: It turned out to be a defective memory module, which has now been replaced.

I found a new Hex Oddity this week while I was browsing through the MSDN documentation for the System.Resources.ResourceManager class: Apparently Microsoft is using 0xBEEFCACE as magic number for their resource files.

Up until now, the only other strange magic number I came across was 0xCAFEBABE, which is used as the first 4 bytes in Java .class files.