… or, “Why I will not get ‘A’s in school unless I change my behaviour” … or “Why nothing in life is simple” … or simply: “Yak Shaving“. I don’t want to lie. Being me has considerable advantages. But it … Continue reading
for /f %%i in (‘find %~1 -print ^| grep .*java$’) do @for /f “delims=” %%j in (‘wc -w %%i ^| sed s/\(^^[0-9]*\^).*/\1/’) do @set /a N+=%%j This is why I hate computers.
It’s been a while since I posted a good ol’ “doom and gloom facebook is the death of privacy and it’s going to be a painful transition to the new world” kind of post. Here’s one. With the rise of … Continue reading
The other day I was talking with friends about marketing and I tried to make a point about online community. Except I think I failed; it degenerated quite badly into rambling. Still, the point was a good one and I … Continue reading
The internet has a koan for this. (Non-link-follower-summary: Initiative to create ‘one system to rule them all’ is a bad idea). From the BBC Article: The idea would enable a given app to work, for example, on a web-ready television, … Continue reading
Today I was looking up some law. And the law was awesome. It was written clearly, with no unnecessary words or phrases. Every bit of the text was meaningful. Nothing was repeated. No definitions were duplicated. Information was managed in … Continue reading
A somewhat frightening BBC story from my link archives: It turns out that if you’re clever with a webpage, you can pretend to be a visitor’s PC for the purpose of finding out the ID number of their router. Well, … Continue reading
Thanks, Oracle. “Deploying coherent packages of software functionality as loosely coupled, coarse-grained services delivers dramatically improved application flexibility, allowing enterprises to continuously adapt constellations of services to keep IT capabilities aligned with business goals.” If I ever want to “continuously … Continue reading
Does not compute.
This is an angry post. Recently Facebook “updated” its interface. I noticed no great improvement, but the bugs really riled me. Try to write a comment… doesn’t work. Okay then. When I logged in to my yahoo mail, there was … Continue reading