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• Vista box at work can't talk to any printers.
  
• HP printer won't print black, even though its ink cartridge is full.
  
• XP box has an endlessly-installing update.
  
• Linksys router needs to be power-cycled daily.
  
• Flash card reader lost an entire day's worth of photos
  
• MSJVM can't be installed OR uninstalled on some Vista machines. Windows 7 won't install ( Read more... )

Printers are moody and tempermental like artists. After installing Vista at work, my computer can no longer talk to any of our shared printers.
ME: Damn, I need to print a boarding pass! I guess I'll try my HP C4480 Photo Printer/Scanner at home ( Read more... )

Since upgrading to a new computer at work (now with less crashing! 4th time's the charm -- thanks, Vista64), I've had to revert to a plain 101-key keyboard. Sadly my old Kinesis is PS2 only ( Read more... )

Previously I wrote about Python as an excuse to complain about names of functions that I didn't agree with. Recently I ran across a couple more.

Python - join vs. split

In Python the join operator is a defined on strings, not lists. You call it like so: ",".join(["a", "b"]).

This avoids forcing every new collection class to redefine join(). I ( Read more... )

OMG Zombie beetles.


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There is something very cyberpunk about San Francisco. From Twin Peaks tonight it looked like a Blade Runner matte painting.


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Sneaking up behind the little girl in Megaton and using pickpocket to give her a Teddy Bear should not cause the player to lose Karma. That is all.

Jolene and Brian point out that by the same math, 11,665 people will count any given hour as their darkest, the one that lives forever in infamy.

It is interesting to note that everyone has a finest hour so far. Whether or not this is your finest hour ever depends on what happens in your time remaining. However, this means that even more people ( Read more... )

I felt the urge to do some math and calculate how many people are currently experiencing their finest hour. For any given hour, how many people around the world will count it as their finest?

• World population: 6,738,085,903
• Worldwide life expectancy (average): 66.12 years
• 66.12 years/life * 8,736 hrs/year = 577,624 hrs/life
• Finest hour = ( Read more... )