Polling a Resource with Fibonacci Determined Sleep Intervals

In mathematics, Fibonacci numbers are the following sequence of numbers:
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, …

By definition, the first two Fibonacci numbers are 0 and 1, and each remaining number is the sum of the previous two. This naturally occurring sequence is useful for determining the amount of time to sleep whenever you [...]

[Bump] MyThree Bandwidth Usage Widget

Download it ‘ere…

I currently have a mobile broadband account (HSDPA) provided by three.com.au, and after a hexy surcharge from the previous month when exceeding my limit, thought it would be prudent to build a dashboard widget that tracks my monthly bandwidth usage.

Building on a previous post that automates calls to a https website, I followed [...]

An exercise in correlation – playing MySpace music via iTunes

[UPDATE] Mr Gecko, has since implemented this logic and sorted out downloading woes (for u US folk) in a nifty little OSX app here …

In between contracts, I have been practicing the art of correlation by scraping data from public web sites. The legality of this is perhaps a little unclear so I’ve aimed not [...]