The (almost) always entertaining Daily WTF has an article today about my favorite pair of standard C functions, setjmp and longjmp:

If goto is considered harmful, then longjmp() should definitely be considered dangerous. As in, thermo-freakin-nuclear bomb dangerous. Fortunately, its complexity and frequency of use seem to be on par with that of a nuke, and most C developers have not brought it in their everyday. Most.

Andrew pointed out today that I get a large amount of indie rock cred for pushing Fleet Foxes as the best band/album of 2008 way before Pitchfork did the same thing. So how do I redeem these points for cash?

Andrew is committed to posting a photo a day. I will post once a day as well. Let’s do this.

I vacillate between being incredibly impressed that a video game about playing a fake guitar can be so much fun and convincing w.r.t. seeming like there is an audience excited about my performance and being disgusted that I spend more time playing a fake guitar in front of my oversized television than I do playing a real guitar through my oversized amplifier.

To expand on my “switching to SmugMug” comment from a few days ago:

1. If you’re a big nerd like me and you subscribe to people’s photo RSS feeds the firehose for my photos is now at this URL. There are a bunch of other feeds available too…
2. The most interesting photos, if I do what I want instead of being a lazy slob, will be in the Email gallery. This is where all the stuff I take with my iPhone will go. Hooray for having the internet in my pocket.
3. Switching to SmugMug was super easy. There’s a Firefox extension called Smugglr that does the job easily.
4. If you sign up for SmugMug I encourage you to use a coupon code to get a discount on the first year. If you’re coming from Flickr use the code flickr to save 50% or, if you feel like helping me pay for my subscription, use hwrh3klDBOGlI – this will save you $5 and send $10 to me – it’s win/win!

Addendum

Cool SmugMug feature: resizing images via URL. Take the photo above. The default size is accessed via the URL http://gty.smugmug.com/photos/442170176_d5a4f-L.jpg. Everything after the “-” tells SmugMug what size photo you want to see. You can use some predefined sizes, like “-L” (large), “-O” (original), etc. But you can also tell it to resize the photo on the fly by giving it the desired dimensions, i.e. “-250×250”. So the URL for embedding the above image is http://gty.smugmug.com/photos/442170176_d5a4f-250x250.jpg.

Kerri has a blog and I updated the photo on Amelie’s little web page.

I got an iPhone. Brendan gave Amelie a Cthulhu plush. I switched from Flickr to SmugMug.

Neil Gaiman on free speech:

If you don’t stand up for the stuff you don’t like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you’ve already lost.

Check it out:

SOMERVILLE, MA, US 11/20/2008 10:00 A.M. - THE RECEIVER WAS UNAVAILABLE TO SIGN ON THE 1ST DELIVERY ATTEMPT. A 2ND DELIVERY ATTEMPT WILL BE MADE