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How did it get to be 2011?
It is absolutely crazy how quick this last year has flown by. It seemed like just yesterday things were thawing out and it was time to start biking, and now here we are again. Madness. I'm starting this year off in a bit of a slump, too, which doesn't bode too terribly well. Let's see if I can't blog, code, and exercise my way out of it. -
Springtime
Spring is coming, and although remnants of the last major snowfall still peek out from the lawns of some shady side streets, the air is fresh and the sun is bright. Sunday mornings now have that golden sunrise hue that seems to promise to last forever. New Year's Day was back in January, but as far as I'm concerned, this is really the new ( Read more... ) -
Twitter ate my LJ; giving LJ2ME a try
Just like many other people, it seems that I've let twitter devour my blogging habit (if ever I really had one, that is, which is debatable). There have actually been a few times recently when I decided to not broach a particular topic because I couldn't think of a reasonable way to fit the thought into 140 characters... and frankly that's just ( Read more... ) -
Google Wave will kill SubEthaEdit, not email; also, people suck
Executive Summary
- Google Wave looks like a very nice concurrent rich text editor;
- I'm worried that it is being positioned to replace tools that are far better in their niche than Wave currently is;
- I'm worried that it may be able to replace tools that are better than Wave has the potential to be, and that it may therefore subtract [some] value ( Read more... )
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Write Better Dammit
Passion radiates. You can see it roll off people in waves, like haze from a locomotive engine. Like that heat, passion doesn't do much in a vacuum, and most of it gets wasted as entropy.
Manage it properly, though, and heat becomes flame, flame becomes fire. Fire can warm the needy, lift rockets to the heavens, and light the way through temples ( Read more... ) -
Bits off the wire
Optical fiber is a brilliant invention: it is a thread of spun glass. By the magic of total internal reflection, the refraction index of the material, and the wavelength(s) of the light fired down the pipe; by the engineering of dense wavelength multiplexing, and quantum-tunneling solid-state laser boosters set into the fiber every few kilometers ( Read more... ) -
D945GLC how-to todos
Dear LJ,
IOU:
- an explanation of why I recently bought an Intel D945GCLF Atom motherboard (short story: my laptop died spectacularly, G45-based motherboards won't hit retail channels for another two months, I can't wait that long for a new system, and I wanted a low-power standalone file server anyhow);
- an explanation, and perhaps explanatory ( Read more... )
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Translation from PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of "An Act to Amend the Copyright Act"
From: "Ministers Prentice and Verner" <Minister.Industry@ic.gc.ca> To: CanadianCitizens@everywhere.com Subject: An Act to Amend the Copyright Act Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:09:06 -0400
The Government of Canada has introduced Bill C-61, An Act to ( Read more... ) -
99 bottles of way too much time on my hands
Because my cow-orkers just had to bring up the Dreaded Site™, and I just had to look at the Scheme version and note that, while at least it was present, the organization of the code in all three versions left a great deal to be desired. A few more moments of reading revealed that the output was wrong, too.
I'm sure you can see where this is going.
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awk snippet, rep: duplicate a string N times
I'm going to start posting the random bits of awk code that I come up with.
Sorry.
For a project about which I'll be writing more in a bit, I needed the ability to quickly produce long strings - on the order of a few dozen, and in some case a few hundred, mebibytes. I went through several iterations before I came up with a version that I liked. ( Read more... )