I was doing a bit of light reading today, flicking through an ASUS notebook warranty booklet (The booklet is way better than the movie). I found a section entitled TFT LCD Defect Policy that should clear up any confusion people might be having on what constitutes a problem with your notebook monitor. It states that you may claim warranty service when your screen has:
...at least 3 bright dots or 6 dark dots or 8 bright and/or dark dots in total; or 2 adjacent bright dots OR 2 adjacent dark dots; or 3 bright and/or dark dots within an area 15mm in diameter.
Yes, that one "or" was in capitals.
The booklet also had a hilarious compendium of collective nouns for pixels. Well, no that's not true. But if it did I'd have to say my favourite one would be "a sprite of pixels". What's yours?
Hexadecimal sure comes in handy sometimes. Like, say, um, if you wanted to know why there was some of the alphabet on your scientific calculator for example. There's been a few times I've needed the following functions to convert decimal bytes to hex in javascript: converting decimal RGB values to those 
Epiphanic moments of genius are relatively rare. Especially for me. That's why I was kind of surprised to have one last Saturday night. It germinated while I waited for my change at the bar, and had blossomed into a fully-fledged revelation by the time I returned to my seat at the back of the room.
A while back I tried to "reverse-engineer" the Line Rider shared object - the file that stores your Line Rider Tracks. The idea was to add a much required "erase" function. I mostly figured it out - but owing to my extremely short attention span it quickly entered my immense "1/2 finished projects" repository.
A couple of years ago I had a client who insisted that they should be able to copy some cells from Excel and paste the data into their web-based inventory system. I ended up creating a faux-grid of textboxes, with a "paste-box" where they could paste the data, which would be parsed and entered into the grid. It really felt like a horrible hack - the pasted data wasn't always in the "correct" format, and my parsing code was pretty dodgy.
Microsoft giveth, and Microsoft taketh awayeth. Damn Microsofth. They've killed the super-cool, barely known, rarely used x-bitmap (XBM) image. Kind of.