Geek Test
Even though Erik won’t take take the Geek Test, I will. Came out with: 38.46154% – Major Geek
The Differences Between Americans And Canadians
Coming back to work from Quiznos (<don cherry>”toasted tastes better!”</don cherry>) there was an example of how in my mind, Americans and Canadians are different, or at least, how I am different from the driver. It was me, the other coder, and the dirver, a young lady originally from the states but who has recently
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Thoughts on Buying Online Music
It looks like real.com has announced it has an online music store called “Rhapsody”. This will be used I assume, to compete with the Apple Music Store. Still no love for me. Apple Music Store Mac hardware only, and I’m not going to pay $2000-4000 to get what I admit is a decent app in
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Windows XP Boot Time
Oh god, I never want to see another windows boot screen again. I’ve been trying to fix some strange problems with the winbox (which didn’t get a hardware upgrade except for video and sound card, but that’s another long story). Basically these consist of it giving me a lovely BSOD a few seconds into it’s
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Soccer
The new boss invited me out to play soccer with him and some folks who get together just down the road from here, and like a fool, I accepted. Heck, even rode my bike down there. It was a lot of fun, but I know I’m going to hurt tomorrow. Badly. My cousin is going
Climbing Humor
I went through some of this list of signs you’ve been climbing too long saying “climb friends fireplace? yup, get on the roof without a ladder? yup, climbing equipment worth more than my care? yup (used to be anyway), looking at holds in the sidewalk? more than once, hurts to hold the steering wheel coming
How to Not Work at McDonalds With Your CS Degree
Scott has a good post of recommendations for new CS graduates is food for thought. I was lucky enough to keep a job that I got while in the co-op program at school, and stayed there for… well, far too long. Most of the post comes out to “get street cred”, which is good. I
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Work Ram Finally!
[alan@workbox alan]$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 318880 313500 5380 0 13152 126864 -/+ buffers/cache: 173484 145396 Swap: 257000 21280 235720 Sure, it’s completely filled up, but that extra 256mb (well, actually 192 because of the asshat way that the HP Pavilion is set up, with only two DIMM slots and coming
Weekend Parties and Lost and Found Kittens
It was a weekend and a half I think. On Saturday we went down to Seattle with Yohimbe and WebDivaD for CthulhuWife’s birthday party. The drive was ok, except for the random torrential downpours that we encountered. About halfway there we encountered an accident which had things backed up right around an offramp. That offramp
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A Much Better Day
Well, so far today has been a much better day than the last couple. While I don’t have the ram for my work machine yet (I’m assured it’s “on the next truck” up from head office), I did just finish ordering a nice new system for home, with some parts based on suggestions given when