Happy Holidays
A coworker asked me what I’m doing for the holidays. My response? Commiting heinous acts in the name of Lord Satan.
A coworker asked me what I’m doing for the holidays. My response? Commiting heinous acts in the name of Lord Satan.
From the GNU Coding Standards: If you do support Windows, please do not abbreviate it as “win”. In hacker terminology, calling something a “win” is a form of praise. You’re free to praise Microsoft Windows on your own if you want, but please don’t do this in GNU packages. Instead of abbreviating “Windows” to “un” [...]
At work I’m doing some old school C programming, which made me think of the OS class I took at BU. Just for shits and giggles I looked up the man page for longjmp(). The best part of the page, by far, is the NOTES section: longjmp() and siglongjmp() make programs hard to understand and [...]
What a weekend. I got back last night from my trip to Atlanta, Georgia, and Birmingham, Alabama. My friend from college, Thomas, got married to his gorgeous girlfriend, Jennie. It was a helluva trip. We went to Waffle House a million times, drank every night and saw the biggest aquarium in the world. We even [...]
Me: man, I’m going to be such an awesomely ornery old man Andrew: you’re already an awesomely ornery young man Me: exactly! Andrew: all you gotta do is get old
Kerri and I finished watching an American Experience episode about the Summer of Love this weekend. The main point of the program was that the Summer of Love in San Francisco was a great countercultural success at the beginning but eventually failed because there were too many people doing drugs and freeloading. <typo:flickr img=”478751292″ size=”small” [...]
Andrew: So what about this whole Gore mansion fiasco? Andrew: Think it’ll actually hurt him? Or fizzle out fast? Me: Fizzle fast Me: It won’t hurt him with the people he’s working to convince. Me: And face it: he wouldn’t have any credibility if he lived like an ascetic hermit. Me: The environmental movement needs [...]
Now that we have The Hitchings Factor, Vastly Important Notes, Geechorama, Dial M for Mr. Swanky (in no particular order) and, of course, Go Terk Yourself I think we need to create our own exclusive blog network a la 9rules. Names?
Over the past, oh, year and a half or so, I’ve followed the rapid ascension of Ruby on Rails to the top of the web development heap. In the process I read a lot of blog entries, a lot of “Hello World!” introductory articles and a lot of best practice documents. A big part of [...]