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Exhausted. Busting my ass to catch up with school work, housework and showering my children with affection. Finn has a...
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| 23:41:02 October 2, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Jamie |
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Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pcleas. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by ilstef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Well, discovered the above quote today. Interesting, and or amusing, yes, but I’m wondering if there is indeed some actual profesionally-done research on this, as one of my assignments is dealing with visual contexts in reading. Mitch Kapor of Lotus Development Corporation fame (hey! I remember using MS-DOS versions of Lotus 1-2-3! Ah, the joys of Release 2.01 with text mode screens and cyan and magenta four colour graphs in CGA…) seems to have mentioned the passage, where there are some interesting comments — but I think that spammers can be beaten still with Bayesian stuff, though I’ve never actually seen that put to the test, so I’m guessing. It seems the ...
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Attorneys at law. This is my second update of the morning, you didn't see the first one because I screwed something up and it dumped before I could post it. Yeah, I know, there's ways around that, but I'm an idiot.Condensed version. I'm still amongst the living. Working away. Still behind on everything but not for lack of trying, it's just going slowly. Things are getting done. Almost through with my Hellboy: Weird Tales script featuring Roger le Homunculus. Not quite sure if it's working or not. I like some of it, dunno about the rest, am scared crapless about drawing it because it isn't my usual cup of ink. Sure, growth, or at least change, is good, but it's also stressful and I'm up to my brain in that swill. I'm a relative newcomer to the Hellboyverse, admired the pictures but never cracked one until recently. Good stuff. Years ago, hell, two decades ago, I had long, late talks with Brian and Tony @ Eternity Comics (still friends to this day) about what we'd like to do in a ...
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| 23:06:41 October 2, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Evan Dorkin |
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I think the topic exchange client is more or less ready for the beta testers. If this post works, I'll give it to them and see what they think. Want to help test? Sign up for the mailing list (there's a link in the yellow box) and you'll get instructions. This post appears in channels: social_software, topic_exchange
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I'm upgrading my main computer at home. For many years, my upgrade technique has been to plug my old hard drive into my new computer and xcopy the whole thing into a directory on my new drive. The new disk is always so much bigger that I don't even notice the old disk's contents on it. I have several layers now of olddisk\olddisk\olddisk directories. (It's too bad this doesn't work for my physical office.) This time, I actually have a smaller drive than my previous computer for various reasons, but it turns out I can still copy the old drive over and have plenty of space left. Obviously, I have been missing out on some new way of creating vast quantities of bits. I suspect digital video is the answer...time for a trip to Fry's! But seriously, it seems like my disk dollars would be better spent some other way. For example, get two smaller drives and make a RAID mirror so I don't have to make backups any more. (As if I do now.) I wonder why consumer machines don't come this way to ...
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(First reports evaluating the effectiveness of strategies for preventing violence: early childhood home visitation.)
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Adam Curry was born into stardom on MTV in the late 1980s. As the VJ host of the network's "Top 20 Countdown," he interviewed stars like Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney, and became himself an all-around pop icon. Adam Curry today is still 6 feet 5 inches of blond Adonis, but his conversation and his work all crackle with his lifelong interest the hardware of communications.
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We spent the last ten days exploring little towns along the Oregon and California coast (when I say "we" I'm not using the editorial "I", but rather referring to the spousal unit and the offspring (no, not Chris and Paul, although they might as well be)). It was upon this pleasant drive that I found true enlightenment: Using a dial-up connection sucks. Way sucks. The fastest connection I ever got was 26K. Guys, you've got it all wrong: We don't need XM Radio,...
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Mock objects for Test::Unit test cases
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| 21:50:02 October 2, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: RAA |
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Localfeeds uses GeoURL to aggregate RSS feeds near cities....
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| 21:48:13 October 2, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: GeoURL Log |
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Couple of months ago, when I was sitting in an aiport without wireless access I realize that the type of weblogs I enjoy most when on a fast connection, links and short descriptions, do absolutely nothing for me now. Its...
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I just noticed that our presentation landed on the VB developer center.
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Well, I guess I'll take a break from reading to let everyone know what's been bothering me that I alluded to yesterday. I had always had the goal of having my associates by May. However, I found out yesterday that...
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So I convinced my parents to help me get a 12" powerbook, but this is not just any 12" powerbook....
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| 20:16:23 October 2, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Caleb |
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The best slashdot comment, with apologies to the author for stealing his wise words: <pre> Please don't replace me. (Score:5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 02, @02:41PM (#7115979) Back in my day, young whippersnappers didn't show disrespect to their elders by talking about replacing them with fancy-pants code. We were shell scripts and we liked it. Not Bash scripts either, real life ksh scripts. You hippies and your bash shell.. why I outta.. ouch, hurt my arm waving it so. Anywho.. back in the day when we were happy little startup systems we didn't have to worry about snakes. Python? Who ever heard of that back then? We has ksh and csh and WE LIKED IT. Damn granola-crunching kids and their need to improve what don't need improving.. Stay in school, don't become pot-junkies and enjoy the blessed rc that nature intended. It started with all this Rock and/or Roll that you ingrates listen to. Back in the 70's we rc scripts were appreciated. Then along comes this ...
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| 20:16:00 October 2, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Design Fu |
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OK, one other really great comment, thanks to "ultrabot": "I for one welcome our new freedesktop.org overlords."
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| 20:16:00 October 2, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Design Fu |
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The best slashdot comment, with apologies to the author for stealing his wise words: <pre> Please don't replace me. (Score:5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 02, @02:41PM (#7115979) Back in my day, young whippersnappers didn't show disrespect to their elders by talking about replacing them with fancy-pants code. We were shell scripts and we liked it. Not Bash scripts either, real life ksh scripts. You hippies and your bash shell.. why I outta.. ouch, hurt my arm waving it so. Anywho.. back in the day when we were happy little startup systems we didn't have to worry about snakes. Python? Who ever heard of that back then? We has ksh and csh and WE LIKED IT. Damn granola-crunching kids and their need to improve what don't need improving.. Stay in school, don't become pot-junkies and enjoy the blessed rc that nature intended. It started with all this Rock and/or Roll that you ingrates listen to. Back in the 70's we rc scripts were appreciated. Then along comes this ...
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| 20:16:00 October 2, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Design Fu |
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Apparently, the City Council reads my blog because they are now trying to pass a proposal banning the Patriot Act in the city of Chicago. Around 25 other municipalities have passed similar legislation, but Chicago would be the largest metropolitan...
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| 19:48:21 October 2, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Kittyloaf |
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When seeing music live, there are often certain loops, licks and lyrics which stand out as so absolutely and surprisingly...
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I ran across this article in CRN about SQM (Service Quality Monitoring) and was pleased to see it getting some publicity. I am sort of the "father of SQM"--we created it for the MSN Explorer project back in 2000, and I continued to manage the development team until last month. MSN Explorer was the testing ground for some cool behind-the-scenes feedback technology. In addition to SQM, it was the first shipping product to deploy the Watson crash reporting client (developed by the Office team). Watson is mostly about what I call "incident data", where something like a crash or an error happened and you want to collect a bunch of data about the context of that incident (like a minidump). SQM is more about statistics of normal usage. How fast is your app? What is the distribution of time to login to your service? What toolbar buttons do people actually use? With this data you can see what's really going on and test the assumptions you made when you designed the product. For example, ...
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This site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/ will be a highly recommended view once the PDC arrives.
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This site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/ will be a highly recommended view once the PDC arrives.
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So here we are, one of the largest democracies trying to emulate democracy in blogsphere. And why not, if you observe the BBM's egalitarian approach towards showcasing the best posts and discussions on Indian Blogs, you will easily conclude that this is the only way that ensures equality among all...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY VINOD!!Watched Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl with Sunil. It's pretty good. Johnny Depp, particularly, is brilliant.How much ever I try, it's difficult to totally abstain from having a fag. However, I am trying and that's only because of a special somebody.
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I just got a call from one of ESRI guys here in Australia and they are trying to deploy ArcIMS on CFMX for J2EE on Solaris 9 but they cannot get the ColdFusion connector to work. Now, I don't know Solaris9 but on my CFMX for J2EE configuration on JRUN, I had to put the...
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OK, one other really great comment, thanks to "ultrabot": "I for one welcome our new freedesktop.org overlords."
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| 17:16:00 October 2, 2003, Thursday (PDT) |
Source: Design Fu |
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Answers to common pub quiz questions via a WAP phone
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