By the time you read this the site will have moved to a new hosting provider (Arvixe.com).
Webhost4life was a good host for many years but something changed recently. The site was moved to a new platform without warning.
It was ported to new servers, which I’m guessing are virtual. My SSL certificate disappeared in the process. My site worked slower…MUCH slower and was out of service numerous times. Not only that but the configuration changed. The new platform doesn’t support .NET 4.0 or the .NET Wildcard mapping in IIS. Support switched …

As technology rambles on, we see an ever increase in the richness of client-side web-hosted applications. Web applications need to move beyond RIA and into fully fledged applications which are downloaded like a web page but have more and more thick-client-like behaviour such as client-side storage.
Yeah, yeah, we’ve heard this all before but the big question is when is it going to happen and how?
The technology that’ll power this is undoubtedly HTML5.
Looking at the desktop market-share we see that

Firefox – 31.26%
Internet Explorer 8 – 25.23%
Internet Explorer 6 …

File this under “do try this at home”. Since Christmas I have been occasionally practicing Origami which has been a lot of fun. Origami, particularly unit-origami as you might think has some fairly strong roots in geometry and some exquisite forms can be produced with some surprisingly complex folds. Probably the best example of this is the Bisected Cube folded from a single sheet, the bisection is covered exactly by a 2nd sheet of paper folded into a perfect hexagon.
This past weekend I tried my hand at Kirigami. Kirigami is …