Public Service Announcement, for those of you who sync schedules with me via FizzyCal: I've created an account on Google Calendar ("cmdr" plus a period plus "samvimes") and am copying my calendar entries over manually. Please excuse the inconvenience, but if you want to continue to track me online, you'll have to switch too.

( Why? )

Got a job tip for all you hackers.

A week ago, I had an interview with a downtown Seattle start-up called SourceLabs. They've got about eighteen employees and have just celebrated their first birthday. They're a company entirely based around open source--Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl, the names nerds know and love. Being a big proponent of open ( Read more... )

And a bit boring, really. Sure, you can look at an anomalous occurrence (a premonition, for example) and explain it away, putting down some of it to known physical effects, and chalking up the rest to human error, mental instability, grand scale falsehoods, or just plain chance. It may be a valid and self-consistent way of looking at things, but ( Read more... )

Spent much of this weekend relaxing, and doing geeky things. Next weekend is going to be busy, so it was nice to take this one easy.

I went through my journal and added tags to everything, mainly because it should make it easier whenever I want to find something specific. I also downloaded this here new version of Semagic, so I can apply the ( Read more... )

Things achieved this weekend:

( Got our cell phones upgraded. )

If you have to keep track of many usernames and passwords for various websites, you could do worse than to install Oubliette. It'll keep track of them for you, in an encrypted file. Before, I was using a text file to do this, encrypted using GPG. It worked, but it was so tedious to encrypt and decrypt that I tended to not update the file, or to ( Read more... )

The purpose of this post is to inform you of the existence of This Is the Title of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself. Its author (that is, the author of this post, not the author of This Is the Title of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself, which would appear to be David Moser) wishes ( Read more... )

"An it harm none, do what you will." --Pagan philosophy

"A robot may not harm a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm." --Isaac Asimov, The Three Laws of Robotics

Ideas colliding in my head again. Time for another meme party.

( Discworld, computers, warring memeplexes, and Jacob Bronowski )

What's the next number in this sequence?

0, 1, 10, 2, 100, 11, 1000, 3, 20, 101, 10000...

Bonus question: At what point does the sequence run into difficulty?

Taken from an interview with Seattle's Three Imaginary Girls.

( On Seattle Coffee: 'type-A personality' )