Surreal moment of the day. Scene: The office the programming folks (or whatever we call ourselves) are using while renovations are going on. Random Dude Who I’ve Never Seen Before walks in. Random Dude: “Is $otherprogrammer here?” Me: “No” RD: “Maybe you can help me, do you know DOS?” Me: <Long pause>”Uhmm…. it’s been a […]
DOS? What is That Again? Read Post »
Another late night it seems. Ok, so here’s the plan. Cat5 has put me in his debt by lending me his desktop machine, a nice little Athlon XP1800+, to use for UFies. Originally it was just going to be for the motherboard, but in the end I decided that I was going to do a
UFies.org – The Plan Read Post »
A trailer for Touching The Void, a book I read a while back is out. It’s by Joe Simpson and is a story of his survival on an alpine climbing expedition. He has another book called This Game of Ghosts which is also good, but seems to degenerate into “I know this guy, but he’s
New Climbing Movie Coming Out Read Post »
Just thinking over things about the UFies.org situation. One thing when talking to Fred and Neil this evening about was how to get the box back up. Neil was willing to donate an athlon motherboard and CPU to me. My problem was that gentoo is compiled for your hardware, and to really get the benefit
Thoughts On Hardware and Email Read Post »
You have no idea the depth of hatred I feel for computers right now. To make a long and painful story short: Box down for a couple of days. Hardware bad. To make it a bit longer than that and see a picture of the 10 hard drives stuffed in the huge case (3xSCSI, 4xIDE,
UFies.org Status Report Read Post »
I’m convinced that babies are actually bait for women. One of the girls from work left to have a baby and she came back here for a shower or something. Anyway, the second she walked into the main area of the upper floor it seemed that every single female from within the building converged on
What Babies Are For Read Post »
As I noted (a little bluntly, sorry about that) over at Dana’s, Netmaster Merilus Netmaster has updated their software. It was release on January 5th but I only found out about it yesterday as I was emailing to find out the status of some business stuff with my old co-workers. Anyway, this updates a bunch
New Gateway Guardian Release Read Post »
topleftpixel.com is another daily photography site with some absolutely fantistic work by a photographer in Toronto. Funnily enough a lot of the recent pictures feature snow 🙂 A lot are also macro images, which look extremely cool. I wish I could have a clue how to get the detail he got in his bagel photo.
Another Daily Photography Site Read Post »
The problem with projects is that sometimes you have to come back to them months, or years, after the fact. When you’re digging around in the code, convinced that the person who wrote it originally (you) was a blithering idiot, and what the hell was I thinking when I did that, and you see something
Revisiting Old Code Read Post »
It was a long weekend not in days off, but in sheer hours spent awake. On friday a friend came over and we watched a couple of movies. Jeepers Creepers II is a horror movie only in the loosest sense. Even watched at midnight with all the lights out and a few beer in me
Movies, Meetups, and Munchies Read Post »