I found this to be an insightful treatment of the topic: Is There Anything Good About Men?

Working from the New York office this week.

Thursday and Friday of last week, I went to Northstar at Tahoe with my extended team from work (30-40 people). I tried skiing once in early 2006 and didn't particularly enjoy it, although that may have been due to icy conditions. I had vaguely meant to try snowboarding instead if it ever came up again, so that's what I did this time ( Read more... )

Things Of Interest by Sam Hughes
This guy's blog is wonderful, for example this entry about meeting a favorite author. Also his short fiction; a friend at work retold me this story without remembering the origin. I think the first page of his site I stumbled across was the delightfully deadpan "How to destroy the EarthI found this article when ( Read more... )

"When there is a drought, then prepare a stock of boats; when there is a flood, then store up carts." - Fan Li, fifth century BC

I saw this meditation on business cycles and contrarian investing in _Food & Money in Ancient China_, which I stumbled across in the Rosicrucian Research Library in San Jose, when tyrsalvia took me there in 2003 ( Read more... )

Wow, LJ is really rotting. I've found at least two bugs in it today.

I guess this shouldn't surprise me, given that I knew brad and evan had moved on to Google Buzz, Twitter, etc. Still, it's very sad ( Read more... )

I think I've straightened out the disk corruption issue. After considerable testing, I've determined that it only happens when using both SATA channels simultaneously, which means the controller (or its driver) is at fault. The disk controller is manufactured by Silicon Image, which is the new name of CMD Technologies-manufacturer of the old ( Read more... )

I just tried to install SP2 for XP on the Windows box I use at home. Halfway through the process, I get an error message whining about a missing file. I verify that the original cab contains a compressed version of said file. I look in the directory where the installer unpacked itself; same file there too. I try to uncompress it with extract. ( Read more... )

I've been asked to put out a fire involving some JS which has broken due to the latest IE patch.

I find myself examining a function named "TryToStartSomething".

I am not entirely sure what my purpose in life is; yet, I am suddenly quite certain that this task does not advance it.

Well, would you look at that. And I've since been to Chicago, so I think I've got the blue states more or less covered ( Read more... )