Yesterday the local Colorado Springs newspaper, the Gazette, printed this letter on the letters page. I find that the sentiments, the lack of research, the uncritical acceptance of "scientific" hogwash from non-scientific sources perfectly appalling. […]
READ MOREA week or so ago I ordered a new light fast notebook for my wife to replace her aging Dell XPS M1330. Aging as in 2 years old, but showing its age nevertheless. It came on Friday, and by Sunday I'd installed Microsoft Office on it and run the Easy Transfer app to copy over her documents and settings. […]
READ MOREThis is a very handy algorithm that I came across today, which is, according to this paper, due to John von Neumann. […]
READ MOREI picked this up the last time we went to England in September, and I was half way through it when I got the phone call from my sister in mid-December that my Dad had been admitted to hospital with a heart attack. […]
READ MOREBack in December, I commented that I could, with a judicious bit of additional code in the open source GraffitiCMS codebase, accept posts from Posterous and publish them on this blog. Well, it turned out that it wasn't that brilliant a code change: it broke the validation for XHTML. So, this evening, I fixed up the current HTML and took another look at my code. […]
READ MOREA couple of weeks ago, Hacker News pointed to an article about how bad hash tables could be in a worse case scenario. […]
READ MOREI have a second-hand black MacBook that I bought some 12 months ago (it's just over 2 years old by now, well outside any warranty) so that I could experiment writing iPhone apps. It's served me well. The only update I've made to it so far is to upgrade to Snow Leopard (OS 10.6), but it's about time I did some further upgrades, hardware related this time. […]
READ MOREOne bug with Graffiti that's been driving me nuts ever since I started using the app over a year ago is that it assumes that a commenter will naturally add the http:// to the beginning of their website name. If they don't, the code that displays the comment later will force the URL to be absolute (essentially by prepending the Graffiti application's base URL to the name). Of course that link is then nonsense and leads to a 404 if someone clicks on it later. […]
Color me stupid, but then again I was under some emotional pressure at the time. The open source version of GraffitiCMS has some changes in it compared to the final official commercial release. Well, duh, I suppose; and of course I'd mentioned some of them in my previous blog post on the subject. […]
READ MOREOnce GraffitiCMS had been posted as open source, I downloaded it with the intent of upgrading this site to it. There wasn't much news on the Graffiti CodePlex page about what had changed since the latest official release (1.2). In particular, no news whether any of the proposed plans from the beginning of the year had been implemented, partially or not. […]
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