Calcatraz Archives
May 2013
17 May 13 - Fixing the Brightness Problem with HP Laptops… Finally
14 May 13 - Starfall Math
06 May 13 - Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 16
06 May 13 - Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 15
06 May 13 - Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 14
06 May 13 - Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 13
05 May 13 - Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 12
05 May 13 - Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 11
05 May 13 - Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 10
April 2013
26 Apr 13 - Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 9
24 Apr 13 - Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 8
24 Apr 13 - Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 7
22 Apr 13 - Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 6
19 Apr 13 - Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 5
18 Apr 13 - Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 4
17 Apr 13 - Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 3
16 Apr 13 - Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 2
16 Apr 13 - Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 1
15 Apr 13 - Spanish Verbs: regular “ir” verbs
15 Apr 13 - Spanish Verbs: regular “er” verbs
15 Apr 13 - Spanish Verbs: regular “ar” verbs
15 Apr 13 - Spanish Vocabulary: Random Vocab
15 Apr 13 - Spanish Verb Conjugation: Tener
15 Apr 13 - Spanish Verb Conjugation: Llamarse
15 Apr 13 - Spanish Phrases: Asking for Clarification
15 Apr 13 - Spanish Basic Conversational Phrases
15 Apr 13 - Spanish Vocabulary: Hace
15 Apr 13 - I’m Smarter in the Mornings, and Other Lessons From Anki
12 Apr 13 - Traditional Spanish Hot Chocolate
12 Apr 13 - Mayan Hot Chocolate
12 Apr 13 - Mayan Infused Chocolate Tea
12 Apr 13 - Chocolate Mayan-Style at ChocoMuseo, Antigua
11 Apr 13 - The ATM Cave Belize: Into Mayan Hell
07 Apr 13 - The Health Benefits of Iron
06 Apr 13 - The Health Benefits of Copper
06 Apr 13 - The Health Benefits of Calcium
06 Apr 13 - The Health Benefits of Vitamin K
06 Apr 13 - The Health Benefits of Vitamin E
06 Apr 13 - The Health Benefits of Vitamin D
06 Apr 13 - The Health Benefits of Vitamin C
06 Apr 13 - The Health Benefits of Vitamin B6
06 Apr 13 - The Health Benefits of Vitamin B12
06 Apr 13 - The Health Benefits of Vitamin A
06 Apr 13 - Evidence for a Dolphin Grammar
06 Apr 13 - Website Design Optimisation: Lessons from the Internet
06 Apr 13 - Broadcast Attacks on Stream Ciphers
06 Apr 13 - Problems with Bruce Schneier’s “Solitaire” by P. Crowley
06 Apr 13 - The Solitaire Encryption Algorithm by Bruce Schneier
03 Apr 13 - The Mathematics and Economics of Pizza Sizes
03 Apr 13 - Tweet at Exactly the Right Moment with Buffer and Tweriod
03 Apr 13 - Reducing the Long-Term Damage of Sunburn
03 Apr 13 - Calcatraz Blog Redesigned… Again
02 Apr 13 - Snorkelling off Caye Caulker, Belize
02 Apr 13 - Disabling Pagination on your Blog’s Homepage
01 Apr 13 - Hiding Post Titles in Breadcrumb NavXT for WordPress
01 Apr 13 - Hierarchical Category Links in WordPress
01 Apr 13 - Looping over a Category in WordPress
March 2013
31 Mar 13 - Travel Saving Tip: The Kitchen Kit
31 Mar 13 - GTD and Bug Tracking Software
30 Mar 13 - Adding Breadcrumb Navigation to WordPress
29 Mar 13 - Better WordPress Theme Editing
29 Mar 13 - Travel Savings Tip: SteriPen
29 Mar 13 - Travel Savings Tip: Track your “savings”
29 Mar 13 - Buses from Belize City to Hopkins on Easter Monday
28 Mar 13 - Getting from Belize City to Caye Caulker
28 Mar 13 - Crossing from Mexico into Belize
27 Mar 13 - Squash Blossom Soup
27 Mar 13 - Salsa de Chile Pasilla
27 Mar 13 - How to make Quesadillas
27 Mar 13 - How to press corn flour tortillas
27 Mar 13 - Travel Packing Tip: Sandwich Bags
27 Mar 13 - Securing your WordPress admin logins
27 Mar 13 - Hacking the Aggregate theme for WordPress
27 Mar 13 - Making WordPress Categories Expandable
27 Mar 13 - Travel Budgeting Tip: Snorkel, Don’t Dive
26 Mar 13 - Rel=nofollow removed from comments
26 Mar 13 - Organising the GTD project list by roles
16 Mar 13 - Better File Backups
12 Mar 13 - What is prime factorization?
11 Mar 13 - My favourite iPhone apps
February 2013
01 Feb 13 - Math Questions and Answers Site
November 2012
08 Nov 12 - Average Weight for Women
08 Nov 12 - MathFactCafe
08 Nov 12 - Conversion Feet to Meters
08 Nov 12 - Average Weight for Height
08 Nov 12 - Pool Geometry
08 Nov 12 - LIC Premium Calculator
02 Nov 12 - View word-count in Notepad++
02 Nov 12 - Measuring Cashflow
02 Nov 12 - Purple Smoothie Recipe
02 Nov 12 - Minifying Less Stylesheets
02 Nov 12 - Anki
02 Nov 12 - Micro Passive Income
02 Nov 12 - JavaScript Optimisation
02 Nov 12 - Getting the HTTP Request in PHP
02 Nov 12 - Using a HTTP Proxy for Development
02 Nov 12 - What is the area of an isosceles triangle of base 25cm and side 14cm?
02 Nov 12 - Simplify (5x+9)(8x^2+7x+2)
02 Nov 12 - Solve 5(4n-4)=-60
02 Nov 12 - What are Slide Attacks?
02 Nov 12 - Solve for n: 4(5n+7)-3n=3(4n-9)
June 2012
15 Jun 12 - Laptop Review – HP Pavilion DM1
11 Jun 12 - Calcatraz Newsletter – June 2012
May 2012
10 May 12 - XE Converter Review
March 2012
14 Mar 12 - PHP Topological Sort Function
13 Mar 12 - Cool Math For Kids at Coolmath4kids.com
February 2012
22 Feb 12 - Wesbank Calculator
21 Feb 12 - Percentage Calculator
21 Feb 12 - Cool Math Games by Coolmath
19 Feb 12 - Quick and Easy Vegetarian Bean Wraps
19 Feb 12 - Calcatraz Calculator iPhone Improvements
January 2012
29 Jan 12 - A Trio of Tomato-Based Sauces
25 Jan 12 - Summer Sorbets
24 Jan 12 - Making Mustards
December 2011
08 Dec 11 - Site Review: Signal vs Noise
08 Dec 11 - My Top 10 (Mainly Online) Business Books of The Year
November 2011
13 Nov 11 - Blog redesigned
October 2011
20 Oct 11 - Yesterday…
August 2011
14 Aug 11 - Case Study: Speeding up the Calcatraz API
12 Aug 11 - Installing XDebug and Webgrind for XAMPP on Windows
July 2011
30 Jul 11 - The Apache mod_rewrite encoded slash problem
April 2011
26 Apr 11 - Calcatraz Typist – Online Touch-Typing Training
January 2011
17 Jan 11 - The Day in the Life Database
06 Jan 11 - Calcatraz for mobiles
March 2010
06 Mar 10 - How to add dots and shorten a string
February 2010
07 Feb 10 - Another Quick Tip: inline divs in IE
07 Feb 10 - A Quick Tip: Webpage Simplification
07 Feb 10 - Getting GTD to Stick #1: Offline or Online System?
January 2010
30 Jan 10 - Defining Website Value
23 Jan 10 - Calcatraz, the Fast Online Calculator
11 Jan 10 - The year ahead for Calcatraz
November 2009
14 Nov 09 - List of Online Calculators
08 Nov 09 - The qualities of a great web application
05 Nov 09 - New User Interface Uploaded
01 Nov 09 - A few changes on the way
October 2009
07 Oct 09 - 8 Ways to Optimise Activities and Free Up Time
01 Oct 09 - Book: The Calcatraz User Manual
September 2009
26 Sep 09 - The Calcatraz Quick-Start Guide
23 Sep 09 - Currency Conversions now Implemented
20 Sep 09 - Calcatraz now shows workings
02 Sep 09 - Distance Conversions Improved
August 2009
30 Aug 09 - Bounce rate reduced from 70% to 44%
30 Aug 09 - Calcatraz – the Online Calculator