September 2011
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do-over replied to your link: Tulsa TechFest 2011 Awesome! You’re going to be fabulous. Woohoo Rod! Also, I tested out as an ‘I’ and just about fell over. I am so out there it’s not funny, I *love* to speak to large groups. But I do (and must, often)...
Tulsa TechFest 2011 →
Somehow, I’m a speaker at this shin-dig.
The Meyers-Briggs people are going to take my “I” away.
Your personal information is confidential and will...
Except for your login and password, which we just sent in clear text through who knows how many email relays in this welcome email.
And your name’s on this email, which is the only other piece of information we have of yours.
And you know how you could see materials intended for our other clients?
You guessed it—they can see yours, too.
Oh, and since we don’t verify emails, any...
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langer replied to your photo: Very Funny, Automatic Coupon Dispenser All I… It was the two bottles of Fuze. For sure.
In that case, it shouldn’t make me wait two weeks.
“We build our computers the way we build our cities — over time, without a...”
– Ellen Ullman — Salon - The dumbing-down of programming
“It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What...”
– Alan J. Perlis — Epigrams on Programming
Twice in the last month I've stayed up later than...
Reason?
I was watching the time on the menu bar of the computer in the screencast I was watching.
I’m not proud of it, but it seemed noteworthy*.
*We won’t get into how many times I’ve tried to scroll a screencast’s window.
Official Google Blog: Time, technology and leaping... →
codelahoma:
The solution we came up with came to be known as the “leap smear.” We modified our internal NTP servers to gradually add a couple of milliseconds to every update, varying over a time window before the moment when the leap second actually happens. This meant that when it became time to add an extra second at midnight, our clocks had already taken this into account, by skewing the time...
I'm now an ENTJ.
entropyas:
I don’t understand how this happened.
I liked being an Introvert….
Extroverts are stupid.
Not as stupid as the Feelers, though, I’d imagine.
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
"With Bitcasa, The Entire Cloud Is Your Hard Drive... →
I’m not sure this passes the sniff test, especially given this (italics on both mine):
When you save a file, Bitcasa writes those 1’s and 0’s to its server-side infrastructure in the cloud. It doesn’t know anything about the file itself, really. It doesn’t see the file’s title or know its contents. It doesn’t know who wrote the file. And because the data is encrypted on the...
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“As long as we embrace (or even accept) standardized testing, fear of science,...”
– Seth Godin — Back to (the wrong) school
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Was It All Worth It? - Queen
Happy Birthday,...
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A Sign Things Are Going My Way
I figured out that my desk, which is currently in the den, won’t fit through the doorway into the office—get this—before unloading it and dragging it the length of the house.
I know, right?
My life, my love, and my lady is exterior blinds
And…scene.
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