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Update

January 25, 2008

For those that only look at new posts and new feed items, never going back to look at old posts, my Upcoming.org issues were resolved.  It was a mem­ory problem–the squishy grey kind, not the sil­i­con chip kind. Ebenezer’s lack of hair means you can clearly see his expres­sions and mus­cu­la­ture.  He makes some really great […]

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Upcoming Issues

January 24, 2008

It seems that Upcoming.org is about as dead to me as Dodge­ball was.  The required Yahoo account migra­tion on Upcom­ing is work­ing just about as well as the Google account migra­tion did with Dodgeball–actually, slightly worse.  8 months later, I was finally able to sign in to Dodge­ball.  Maybe I’ll have good news to report […]

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Firefox 2.0 Annoyances

January 25, 2007

One of the things about Fire­fox 2.0 for the Mac that bugs me (and only the Mac version–the Linux ver­sion is not afflicted by this) is that when you attempt to drag and drop a link from the URL bar to the book­mark bar, a tooltip say­ing “Drag and drop this icon to cre­ate a […]

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Double-U Tea Eff?!?!

September 18, 2006

BUGS By default, Linux fol­lows an opti­mistic mem­ory allo­ca­tion strat­egy.  This means that when mal­loc() returns non-NULL there is no guar­an­tee that the mem­ory really is avail­able. This is a really bad bug. In case it turns out that the sys­tem is out of mem­ory, one or more processes will be killed by the infamous […]

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Regurgitating an Interesting Article

December 4, 2005

I am feel­ing much less sick now.  Plus, I have enough chicken soup to drown a baby (or bap­tize a baby, depend­ing on your inten­tions.) Why McDonald's Fries Taste So Good is an arti­cle (linked from Digg) which was used in Fast Food Nation.  It describes a lit­tle bit of the his­tory of their fries, […]

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Bugs, Cats, and Robots

December 23, 2004

Recently at work, I have been bug fix­ing.  Most of the big bugs are gone, with just minor stuff remain­ing.  It ends up being sim­ple, mind­less rep­e­ti­tion — no inven­tion, no inno­va­tion.  You pull up a bug report, you find the line of microc­ode that is mis­be­hav­ing, you mark the bug as fixed, lather, rinse, […]

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