2008年06月23日
My Plea to CellularDR.com
I was caught in a torrential downpour while anticipating the subsequently cancelled performance of an outdoor play. I essentially took a shower, clothes on, phone in pocket. I smartly turned off the phone and removed the battery from my wet... [Read Entry]Posted by William at 22:56 | Comments (1)
2006年11月26日
Geektertainment
We pretend to read tech forums for information, but really it's about the entertainment value. Here's an extract from one slashdot post: Re:It depends on your perspective by iocat (572367) Alter Relationship on Saturday November 25, @04:12PM (#16986536) Good managers... [Read Entry]Posted by William at 01:33 | Comments (0)
2006年10月10日
Faith Based Programming
Scrum, Agile, Waterfall, Extreme, Feature Driven, Crystal Clear; while these programming methodologies, old and new, have their own advocates and detractors, benefits and drawbacks, evangelists and trolls, they all leave something to be desired, something intangible. A feeling of incompleteness.... [Read Entry]Posted by William at 15:54 | Comments (2)
2006年06月10日
Fashion Google Trends
Heard enough about Google? Didn't think so. My cautious love affair with our presumably benevolent oracle continues. Would you like to know who is searching for what on the Internet? This is the rise and fall, advance and decline, stride... [Read Entry]
Posted by William at 04:27 | Comments (3)
2006年05月18日
Redesign
I have been working very hard to bring this site to a new level. I began by creating a menu interface using those mysteriously useless blocks at the top left under the banner. I had imagined the concept a while... [Read Entry]Posted by William at 13:05 | Comments (0)
2006年05月01日
Google Shrugged
If you have not read Atlas Shrugged, you should. Even if you were painted head to toe in red waiving your hammer and sickle this May Day, the book is an entertaining read. Actually, for entertainment, The Fountainhead is, in... [Read Entry]Posted by William at 22:21 | Comments (4)
2006年04月09日
Command Shell from OS X Install CD
I have been trying to help my friend Paige recover her Mac that died after an attempted upgrade to OS X version 10.4.6. In Linux, I often boot to single user mode to troubleshoot hairy problems. In OS X, this... [Read Entry]Posted by William at 03:13 | Comments (2)
2006年02月17日
Developer Job Vacancy in Tortola
My cousin's company is looking for an application developer. Bonus: the job is in Tortola (think white sand beaches and offshore banking) in the British Virgin Islands! T-SQL SQL Reporting Services Visual Basic .Net or C# ASP.Net Crystal Reports Great... [Read Entry]Posted by William at 23:15 | Comments (0)
2006年02月15日
The Feeds are Back
I have resurrected the Mainichi Shinbun news feed and returned it to its rightful place in the right-hand column. I disabled it a while ago when the script generated errors, but did not bother looking into it until now. Apparently... [Read Entry]Posted by William at 04:04 | Comments (0)
2005年04月27日
Complaint about using public terminals
Without my own computer, or at least one that I have unrestricted access to, I am stuck using public computers with poor configurations. Many of you will have no idea what I am talking about, but those who do will... [Read Entry]Posted by William at 07:42 | Comments (0)
2004年12月09日
Save the boys!
First bicycle seats and now this. It seems the family jewels are under constant attack. The journal Human Reproduction found that using a laptop on your lap can raise testicular temperature by nearly three degrees Celcius! And we all know... [Read Entry]Posted by William at 14:36 | Comments (3)
2004年12月07日
Spam Spam Spam Spam
I am fighting a losing battle against comment spam. I would like to revamp the comment system to prevent automated posting, but in the meantime I am disabling comments on all but the lead page.... [Read Entry]Posted by William at 03:02 | Comments (7)
2004年09月28日
Fedora Core 2
I recently installed (and am using this instant) Fedora Core 2 (FC2) Linux. Fedora is the community arm of possibly the most recognized commercial Linux distribution Red Hat. Red Hat used to distribute its flavour of the OS for free... [Read Entry]Posted by William at 22:36 | Comments (3)
2004年09月24日
Time
The mother clock. This is where Canadians go if they really want the time: The Frequency and Time Group at the Institue of National Measurement Standards of the National Research Council of Canada is responsible for "official time". Canada's caesium... [Read Entry]Posted by William at 01:54 | Comments (0)
2004年09月20日
Salami Firecracker
"You need only 15 minutes to prepare for the night of love! salami firecracker" reads the subject heading of my latest spam email. I use the mail reader that comes with Netscape Communicator 7.1. Usually the built in junk mail... [Read Entry]Posted by William at 16:22 | Comments (5)
2004年08月06日
Donkey Kong Pornography
Sometimes I check the statistics of my web page. I can find out interesting things like where my traffic is coming from: I can find out how the level of excitement in my life corresponds to the degree of traffic:... [Read Entry]Posted by William at 20:37 | Comments (0)
2004年07月29日
On Hackers
Working on nasty little problems makes you stupid. Good hackers avoid it for the same reason models avoid cheeseburgers. -Paul Graham Great Hackers [Update: Since I started modelling, I must dispute one of the axioms in Paul Graham's theory. Models... [Read Entry]Posted by William at 15:36 | Comments (2)
2004年05月05日
Something Sucks
I reached the limit of Movable Type, or my web browser "Net Front", or the W3C standard for text input boxes, or something, when I hit save and a good page worth of my story was obliterated from my entry.... [Read Entry]Posted by William at 14:55 | Comments (0)