| Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 |
| 12:11 am |
You know, I've been ignoring LiveJournal for so long that I suddenly realized that if I get back into it, people might be gobsmacked to remember who I am. But maybe I ought to anyway. I've been working as a Linux sysadmin for the last year or so, after a few months stabbing myself in the head as I did admin work on Win2K/2K3 boxen, which gives me good anecdotes to share with Lowercase Robert (who I still go to the Mongo with here and there), and it makes me understand why ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ronebofh was as fascinating as he was the first time I met him on Usenet lo those many years ago. |
| Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 |
| 1:23 pm |
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| Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 |
| 1:51 pm |
I'm seeking your opinion on....
....people who make software that's only available as an online download, but they decorate their Web site with fake pictures of the boxes that the software would theoretically come in if it came in boxes. |
| Thursday, September 27th, 2007 |
| 9:11 pm |
I knew Fred MacMurray had three sons but I didn't know he was this kind of a stud. Man, that Ann Miller, huh? Yup. |
| 8:48 pm |
It's always interesting when you find out some song from your past had a video you never saw. This was an alt-rock single when I was in high school 16 years ago. Jesus Christ I'm getting old. ( sing along? ) |
| Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 |
| 10:27 pm |
Quick questions for those who might know
1. What's the difference between getXmlHttpRequest() and getXMLHTTPRequestObj()? 2. Is the latter not supported by Safari? 3. Does the capitalization matter? Googling for the function names I see many zany case variations. I'm not doing any "AJAX" coding myself, just trying to get an idea of why the Wall Street Journal's Web site doesn't display all the tables on my stock market data page in Safari but it works fine in Firefox. (I tried spoofing the user-agent string to see if it was as simple as that, but it wasn't.) I dug into the page source and found that the table missing in Safari is made with two getXMLHTTPRequestObj() calls, and that's the only place in the entire page where that function name is used. ( some thoughts I had after initially posting this ) |
| Thursday, May 24th, 2007 |
| 4:12 pm |
How many of youse can sing like this??? I can't even hit every note and I'm the best singer ever! NotR, I'm counting on you to teach me to yodel. |
| Monday, May 21st, 2007 |
| 12:35 pm |
I think these guys may be the best acoustic duo ever (no offence jwgh). I want to start a fan club for the guy in the background of the first vid. |
| Sunday, March 11th, 2007 |
| 9:58 am |
It's kind of cool how I live so close to the Silver Spring Tastee Diner that I can (just barely) pick up their free open WiFi signal from my apartment.  |
| Sunday, February 4th, 2007 |
| 2:35 pm |
According to a post to the UNIX-HATERS mailing list back in 1991, these are some actual error messages generated by the C compiler in the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop IDE from back in those days: "String literal too long (I let you have 512 characters,
that's 3 more than ANSI said I should)"
"...And the lord said, 'lo, there shall only be case or
default labels inside a switch statement'"
"a typedef name was a complete surprise to me at this point
in your program"
"'Volatile' and 'Register' are not miscible"
"You can't modify a constant, float upstream, win an
argument with the IRS, or satisfy this compiler"
"This struct already has a perfectly good definition"
"This onion already has a perfectly good definition"
"type in (cast) must be scalar; ANSI 3.3.4; page 39, lines
10-11 (I know you don't care, I'm just trying to annoy you)"
"Can't cast a void type to type void (because the ANSI
spec. says so, that's why)"
"Huh ?"
"can't go mucking with a 'void *'"
"we already did this function"
"This label is the target of a goto from outside of the block containing this label AND this block has an automatic variable with an initializer AND your window wasn't wide enough to read this whole error message"
"Call me paranoid but finding '/*' inside this comment makes
me suspicious"
"Too many errors on one line (make fewer)"
"Symbol table full - fatal heap error; please go buy a RAM
upgrade from your local Apple dealer" |
| Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 |
| 5:21 am |
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| Monday, January 15th, 2007 |
| 6:08 pm |
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| Thursday, January 11th, 2007 |
| 3:22 pm |
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| Tuesday, December 26th, 2006 |
| 4:24 pm |
I've got to do something to get revenge on Kibo for introducing me to Slither Link puzzles (like the ones at puzzle-loop.com), but I'm not sure what. Hide all the hot sauce in the world? Take control of Usenet and sell it to the makers of CoolWebSearch? Force newswire services to concentrate only on serious news and not all that "lighter side" stuff? Anyone have other ideas? |
| Thursday, December 14th, 2006 |
| 10:06 am |
This Flash animation is a pretty good spoof of what it's like to deal with clients' graphic-design directions. I'm not sure if the "52 x star" on the U.S. flag is part of the joke or not, though. |
| Tuesday, December 12th, 2006 |
| 10:56 am |
Found this via a post on the Something Awful forums. A wrestling-team member at an Ivy League university was taking part in a group project for an upper-level econ class in which the group examined management decisions at the huge aluminum company Alcoa. The wrestler, tasked with writing the "qualitative analysis", put together an eight-page paper in which the first few and last few paragraphs mention Alcoa and the rest is padded out with one of the most mind-boggling performances of random BS that I've ever seen, dragging Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Leonardo, Alexander the Great, and Hummers into it. Needless to say, the other group members were sufficiently displeased that the paper leaked out onto the Net. The whole thing is hilarious; give it a read. |
| Tuesday, December 5th, 2006 |
| 10:05 am |
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| Wednesday, October 18th, 2006 |
| 7:18 pm |
product endorsement
The Hewlett-Packard KU-9963 is the most comfortable touch-typing keyboard I've used. Give it a try if you're in the market for such a thing! |
| Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 |
| 8:42 pm |
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| Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006 |
| 9:25 am |
Here's a charming tale that will surely be of interest to jwgh and other customer-facing employees. |
