I'm paranoid enough to dislike the idea of Blogger having an account set up, with my name on it without me signing up for said account. I mean, seriously, creating accounts for people for something in the public domain is just a really horrible idea. All sorts of mischief could result ( Read more... )

Why does Firefox 2 for the Mac not have a hotkey combination to drop down the bookmarks menu! It is fine by me that Apple+B opens the Bookmarks Manager, but is absolutely dead wrong not to maintain consistency with Firefox on the other platforms. There should be a keyboard shortcut to open the menu Bookmarks, yet there is not.

GRRRRRRRR.

Edsger W. Dijkstra's article Go To Statement Considered Harmful in 1968. I've known about it for a while, probably even have it bookmarked in the folder of stuff to read someday, and I finally just read it after seeing this comment. A seminal article by one of the paragons in the field of computer science. Deep thoughts from a powerful mind. A call ( Read more... )

Peter Rohde links to computer geek political humor: Torture Bill as C Code. I recommend it for a moment of humor. If you don't know the C programming language, read the first comment at the post by Rohde to see why it's poignant and hilarious at the same time.

The War on Terror, done up in bash.

Keeping with the trend of not posting much since I don't have much to say right now, Firefox users, try typing about:mozilla into the location bar for something interesting. (Seen at CT.) Also, Pulp Fiction: awesome. Being dumb enough to believe that a data migration would be done when IT says it will be done: not so much.

Check out the second image at the screenshot webpage for TeXmacs :

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While for me the name of the blog implies Maclot levels of devotion to the Unix command, in reality it's a blog about making stuff yourself. And in honor of she-knows-who-she-is, I present to all y'all a link about Instructions and PDF Document to Make a Wallet Out of Tape.

So, it turns out that both of the DVDs I burned, one as a back up on May 21, one as a complete archive of my work burned on Saturday to give to my boss's new student, are coasters. I still have the talk I wrote for her since it's in my email, as well as the pdf of my notes generated in the LaTeX front end I've been using, which got emailed to the ( Read more... )

WHILE (bills don't agree)
10 GOTO Senate
20 GOTO Assembly
30 GOTO 10*.

*I recognize the syntax, but damned if I remember the language. It's a form of BASIC that wikipedia is familiar with, could be an early fortran. Dammit, I wanted to get the syntax for the while loop right. Without that, it's just pseudocode, less inherently geeky as a political