| My Daily Tweets |
[May. 6th, 2008|11:36 pm] |
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| My Daily Tweets |
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| Das deutsches Wort des Tages |
[May. 1st, 2008|12:58 am] |
Geschlechtsverkehr
Aw, German compounds, how I love thee.
(learned from watching The Lives of Others, with Dan. good movie.) |
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| C++ |
[Apr. 29th, 2008|11:37 pm] |
I've been writing a bunch of C++ lately, both inside and outside of work. Really, once you learn what the gcc error messages actually mean, then it's smooth sailing. My mean time between bugging ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) evan continues to drop ... a little.
I regularly bounce now between C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, Perl, and Sawzall. I wish I could say something more profound than that they all suck in their own special ways. (I suppose the cheery angle is that they're all beautiful snowflakes too, but...)
Actually JavaScript is almost the least annoying, from a language perspective. JavaScript with the whole DOM and browser crap is a whole different story ... but embedded JavaScript is great.
I wrote something in plain C the other day and besides being kinda nostalgically quaint, it kinda blew. I eagerly await rewriting it in C++.
Back to C++ fun.... |
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| I remember back when gas was only a nickel... |
[Apr. 29th, 2008|09:40 am] |
Fortunately I don't really drive often, having the 3x better gas mileage with the motorcycle.
That was the first time I ever typed nickel, too, and I misspelled it as "nickle". Who knew? |
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| My Daily Tweets |
[Apr. 27th, 2008|11:35 pm] |
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| My Daily Tweets |
[Apr. 25th, 2008|11:36 pm] |
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| My Daily Tweets |
[Apr. 23rd, 2008|11:37 pm] |
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| GMail Spam |
[Apr. 22nd, 2008|08:47 am] |
GMail's anti-spam seems completely ineffective. This is what I woke up to this morning, after 8 hours of sleep:
7 messages I care about (only 1, really, but 6 I'll glance at), and 18 spams.
I was doing better when I was running my own mail server. :( If I look at the headers of these emails, a good number come from home DHCP users. My rule on my mail server, with a few false positives, was that sending email from IPs that reversed as home ISPs just wasn't allowed. Spam went to almost zero.
Also lols on how many of these messages have headers like:
X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true
Good job. I hope that header was faked and not actually IronPort's bragging.
What to do? I really hate mail. |
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| Learning Russian grammar from spam |
[Apr. 21st, 2008|12:20 am] |
Aw, spam...
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| DNA Sequencing |
[Apr. 17th, 2008|02:56 pm] |
 A tweet from earlier today:DNA fedexed to Iceland. Genetic predispositions forthcoming. Friend me on decodeme to share genes! :P (Seriously, they're a social networking site?!)
I can't wait to actually add my foaf:dnaChecksum field to my FOAF. I might need to flesh out that spec a bit more, though, clarifying how to specify the digest function and the input fileformat. |
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| Weekends |
[Apr. 15th, 2008|09:19 pm] |
The last three weekends have been:
- Seattle
- Scuba diving
- Skiing
What can I do this weekend that starts with an S? |
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| Taxes |
[Apr. 15th, 2008|09:13 pm] |
After lots of frantic emails, calls, faxes, and motorcycle trips to the bank and post offices, a lot of my money is now gone, safely in the hands of the government.
I fortunately found a postal truck parked near a post office on my second attempt at finding a post office at 5:40 pm, and the postman took my (and 3 other people's) envelopes. Hopefully it gets postmarked or whatever. |
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| My Daily Tweets |
[Apr. 12th, 2008|11:32 pm] |
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| My Daily Tweets |
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| My Daily Tweets |
[Apr. 8th, 2008|11:37 pm] |
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| My Daily Tweets |
[Apr. 5th, 2008|11:33 pm] |
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| Tonight |
[Apr. 5th, 2008|01:32 am] |
I had two options for this Friday evening:- go to Tahoe & ski
- go to Monterey & dive
I did neither.
Skiing would've required both days, I'd already committed to diving when my friends did their certification check-out dives, and I kinda hurt my knee the other day playing Ultimate.
But scuba: I couldn't find a scuba partner for tomorrow morning, and everybody else will be in classes, sitting on the bottom of the ocean tossing their regulators and finding them back.
So I sat at home, cleaned up music collection more, and did this hack: smart MP3-aware file chunking for Brackup. Now I can retag music at will and iterative backups in the future won't re-backup the music bytes, just the ID3 tags. MP3 files, when smart chunking is enabled, now have 1, 2, or 3 chunks, depending on number/type of ID3 tags.
As for fun stuff: I'll drive to Monterey tomorrow and just pay for one night's hotel, party it up in the hotel bar/pool, then dive Sunday morning with Erin, Whitaker, Tessa, Dan, Julie, and not Ojan.
Update: (oh, I also got iSCSI working from OS X to Linux. what a frickin' eventful evening, apparently.) |
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