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& Operator Overloading">Boost C++ & Operator Overloading

August 28, 2010

As you may or may not know already, I recently started a new job.  The new com­pany makes a lot more heavy-duty use of C++ than the pre­vi­ous one did.  Among the C++ code is the 3rd party Boost C++ library.  I had periph­er­ally heard of Boost before, but had never looked too deeply at […]

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Money vs. Culture

July 28, 2010

There is a great guy named Mer­lin Mann whose work I have been appre­ci­at­ing for years.  He is pretty much a time and pro­duc­tiv­ity guru, although I am not sure you’d be able to catch him using the word “guru” to describe him­self in any way.  He invented the Hip­ster PDA and Inbox Zero.  Earlier […]

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The Neo-Victorian Cubicle

Thumbnail image for The Neo-Victorian Cubicle February 28, 2010

If you’re going to do some­thing, do it big.  Make it spec­tac­u­lar.  Whether it’s a fan­tas­tic suc­cess, an amaz­ing effort, or an astound­ing fail­ure, make it some­thing peo­ple will talk about for a long time. A cou­ple of weeks ago the office in which I work did a bit of a reshuf­fle.  We ran out of […]

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Wikis and notepads and text files, oh my!

October 16, 2009

The other night, @verso tweeted a ques­tion about run­ning a lit­tle wiki on a home file server.  I responded with Tid­dly­Wiki, which is a whole wiki con­tained in a sin­gle HTML file.  It actu­ally may or may not ful­fill her needs, since there are huge con­cur­rency and remote access issues — it’s designed to be […]

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WHACK it!">WHACK it!

September 24, 2009

You may or may not have seen my tweet/twitpic about learn­ing to whack a cou­ple of days ago.  It was from a flier that Human Resources (pre­sum­ably) left sit­ting on the color printer.  This morn­ing, while wait­ing for our stand-up meet­ing, some­one thought to track down the source.  A quick Google search later, we had […]

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& Ladders per hour">900,000 Chutes & Ladders per hour

September 13, 2009

Every Thurs­day at work, dur­ing our lunch hour, sev­eral of us get together to play board games.  We play a dif­fer­ent game each week, and aside from a few tries at new games, we tend to rotate through the same three or four games each week.  In an attempt to add a lit­tle vari­ety, we […]

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Brian’s Ten(ish) Songs

August 26, 2009

At work we’ve been orga­niz­ing lit­tle unof­fi­cial fun activ­i­ties.  (And by “we,” I mean a coworker, Helen.) This includes things like Fri­day lunches out with the whole depart­ment (some of us eat out more fre­quently than that, but even the brown-baggers are now going out with us on Fri­days).  There is a weekly lunch­room board […]

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The Office Wiki Stored in my iPhone

March 4, 2009

Yester­day, I was look­ing for a way to carry around a local copy of a wiki on my iPhone.  It seems that there are sev­eral apps that let you carry around an offline copy of Wikipedia — in case you are stuck on an air­plane or out of cell­phone range and need to look something […]

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Ketchup Post

November 6, 2008

As I unloaded a bunch of pho­tos to Flickr yes­ter­day, I real­ized I haven’t posted here in a while.  It’s about time for a catch-up post. Elec­tion! Yeay!  What more can I say that oth­ers haven’t already said much more elo­quently than I could come up with.  The orig­i­nal plan was to go to the […]

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There is no spoon

October 22, 2008

At work today our source code repos­i­tory dis­ap­peared.  This is a bad thing.  You know how, at 7-Eleven, they have that big safe bolted to the floor behind the counter?  It has the slot in the top to make night drops if the cash reg­is­ter ever gets a lot of money in it so that […]

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LCD demo video">LCD demo video

July 8, 2008

Most peo­ple come to the real­iza­tion that this is some kind of hid­den infra­struc­ture at their work that some­one else maintains—it lets them save their Pow­er­Point slides to the net­work share. 

firmware — “It’s like soft­ware, but in things you don’t typ­i­cally think of as computers—things you don’t usu­ally want to crash: cell­phones, tele­vi­sions, cars, and the like.

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More Ketchup

April 22, 2008

This is another catch-up post to cover all sorts of top­ics from the past week. Dream Last night, I had an odd dream in which I some­how lost a cadaver.  I have no idea why I had one.  I might have been a mor­ti­cian or trans­port­ing it or merely keep­ing an eye on it for someone.  […]

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