In case anyone was curious what I did with my iPhone application, I did end up releasing it for jailbroken phones. It's called ContactXfer and is available through Cydia. It's beta for sure, though I haven't received any complaints.

Looks like it's even getting a tiny bit of attention, which is fun. The code is pretty crappy, but I've got tarballs ( Read more... )

My coding curiosity got the better of me, and I made a little iPhone app. ( But there's a problem... (read on if you want to listen to me whining about Apple...) )

It's odd how you forget things that you like.

I just watched a movie which I've seen many times - Rope (1948) - which I own precisely because I think it is so good (hint: I've had this userpic for a very long time). In fact, I had completely forgotten just how good this film is (Thanks to unseleigh for suggesting I watch it tonight). For those who don't ( Read more... )

I just found a bug in find(1).

For the very few of you who may appreciate this, here is a very nice example of
( memory corruption causing problems in distant places )

Being all over whois (that's my ancient nic handle from back when you updated your domain by uploading text files1), I get a lot of unwanted email. My mail server typically rejects between 200 and 400 messages per day (bursts into the thousands), just for coming from an IP address it can't find a name for ( Read more... )

I'm posting this right now during a power outage. On the bright side, it seems I have all of the right things hooked up to the UPS.

By the way, does anyone know Category Theory? Specifically things you can do with F-Algebras?

A ship can float on water, but it can sink in it too.

This is a small road along a "back way" to campus:

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So I was reading this SANS Diary Entry which talks about Social Security Number - IP Address equivalence, and I got curious.

I won't do something silly like post my SSN here, but here's the whois registrant that it belongs to, which I thought was kind of funny (in exactly which way I'm not sure yet).

OrgName: Halliburton Company ( Read more... )

Every once in a while living in the middle of nowhere turns out to be good.

"You need 30,000 mile service on your car with 2 hours notice? No problem!"

In every other place that I've lived that would have been a "Hahahaha!"