June 4, 2007 fun

A really bad optimization

I always knew that the scientists would optimize away sending the matter when all they need is to send the state: “A team of physicists has...

May 30, 2007 fun

Microsoft Surface

the Microsoft Surface web site“““...

May 28, 2007 spout writing

Why do we pick on journalism majors, so?

Here’s another one: For example, if we had had a background in journalism, we might have used one-based indexing instead of zero-based indexing...

May 28, 2007 spout writing

Sometimes I crack myself up

I forgot until the copy edit review process that I’d dropped this gem into a footnote: On August 4th, 1997, the world’s oldest person so far,...

May 19, 2007

Heard in the halls at RailsConf 2007

I was passing a young, blue-haired photographer-ess who said the following to a gentleman she wanted to smile for a picture: “Just think about...

May 11, 2007

Dogfood — it ain’t just for dogs

a new way to format text for online reading...

May 10, 2007

Get your PDC Code Camp On!

*free*Portland Code CampWSU2DXNAWahoo!Register today...

May 6, 2007 .net

Lutz’s Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Samples

some of his .NET code to use the Silverlight 1.1 alpha...


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