Sadly, I had to turn off comments; the spammers won. They’ll remain off until someone comes up with a better comment-spam prevention mechanism for WordPress. I’ve tried most everything that the wordpress support pages suggest, but it hasn’t helped much.
Kevin Marks, a guest blogger over at Many-to-Many, explains how “social video editing” could work with Tivos: TiVo collects data on which programs have been watched, which bits were fast-forwarded, and which were played more than once or in slow motion. Imagine if it took the Olympics, or a baseball or football game, or presidential [...]
Rico Mariani has a new blog post up: More Performance Tidbits for library writers: Principle #6: When creating data structures, pretend that following a pointer is a very costly operation Actually you don’t have to pretend because it really is costly compared to say going to the next element of an array. Modern processors can [...]
Marginal Revolution guest blogger Steve Landsburg has a depressing answer: Writing a book is not like growing an orange. If you grow the best orange in the world, the second best orange still gets eaten. But if you write the best book in the world, the second best book loses a lot of readers. So [...]
Here’s a great little film about The End of the World.
As some of you know, I’m working on a project right now that will let me set up a photo-blog for Crazy But Able. But after some initial progress in the MySQL ocean, I’ve been stagnating in the waters of XML/XSL hell for the past few days. A few hours ago, I finally figured out [...]
… on the other hand, you’ll probably read this somewhere else before you read it here.
Okay, go out and rent Star Trek III: The Search For Spock (unless you’re an ubergeek, then just grab it off the shelf.) Watch nearly the whole thing. At the very end of the movie, Spock takes his terry-cloth hood off and starts talking to Kirk. At some point, Spock says “The ship, it’s out [...]
So, here I am, a Minnesotan trapped in California. I needed to vote for the lesser of the two evils, so I got myself an absentee ballot. One problem, the ballot has to be signed by one of 3 types of witnesses: a registered Minnesota voter; a notary; or someone with the authority to administer [...]
From IRC just now: <the_W> <xsl:text>
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