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It Depends on What the Meaning of "None" is...
One of the graphs in a report generated by our product at work was generating numbers that didn't seem quite right ( Read more... ) -
Blinkenlights to the left, blinkenlights to the right
As I type this, I have been sitting on the floor of the UUNet MCI Verizon Business datacenter, surrounded by lots and lots of blinking lights for the last five hours while working on setting up our new mail server at work. My butt is being kept a comfortable 50°F from the AC vents in the raised floor ( Read more... ) -
Dear Spiders,
I know you eat bugs and all, but, I must ask you to follow a few rules while doing so in my house ( Read more... ) -
Many, Many Flashing Lights
Anyone know WTF was going on (and still seems to be going on, given what the traffic cameras are showing) in Silver Spring this evening on around 29 and Dale Dr. that involved at least 20 police cars, two motorcycle cops, two police helicopters, a fire truck, an ambulance, a cop running around with a rifle, and two handcuffed people, one of whom ( Read more... ) -
In NYC for the day yesterday...
The Harry Potter fans among you may enjoy "The world's worst celebrity recasting of the American version of Harry Potter I was in NYC yesterday with my family to watch the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. We went up and back in a coach with 50 other people going to see the show. By the end of the ride up, I wanted to kill the two women several ( Read more... ) -
A Lesson in Paying Attention
In July of last year, I whipped up a little program called Unockupd, that worked around a bug in Apple's lookupd software that is a vital component of Mac OS X. Long and short of it is, there's an unresolved problem where lookupd crashes in its caching code, which renders vast parts of the OS unusable until you either kill lookupd (which becomes a ( Read more... ) -
Telemarketers Suck
Telemarketer: blah blah blah. I know you're busy, so I won't waste your time. You know where the Montgomery County Fairgrounds are, right? To get our free information, you can go to our booth at the fairgrounds this weekend.
Me: If you didn't want to waste my time, why did you call me? -
Rules of Maryland Weather
The First Rule of Maryland Weather: There is no rhyme or reason to the weather. It does as it pleases. If it inconveniences you, so much the better ( Read more... ) -
Vote!
I just got back from voting, and noticed two odd things ( Read more... )
