Monthly Archives: March 2007

Merciful God, what the fuck in hell is this??? found @ wikipedia I was looking up some stuff about Galactus and I found this image, which just leaves me speechless. I’m not sure if this is one of stupid Marvel … Continue reading →

This is pretty amazing stuff: click on the image to view the animation This is an interactive flash animation, showing you a life-size representation of a whale. You drag the image with your mouse, or click on the “mini-map” area … Continue reading →

Anyone around here is into RPG? How about tabletop battle games? Collectible Card Games? If you are, check out the Nearby Gamers site. If you are not, you can still check it out for yet another cool use of the … Continue reading →

I just don’t know what to say to this: img © toyvault Apparently you can this and other cthulhu plushies from Toy Vault. The “themed” cthulhu dolls crack me up… [tags]cthulhu, elvis, toys, plushies, random, wtf[/tags]

Anyone uses AIM around here? I finally downloaded the most recent update of their Windows client few days ago. Yes, I know I’m way behind the times, but you probably noticed that I’m not a big IM user these days … Continue reading →

I decided to implement the Ackermann function in Java using the BigInteger class. Mainly I wanted to see something generating really big numbers, to see how the class scales. Ackermann seemed to be a good place to start, because this … Continue reading →

You might have seen this image in /dev/random feed (btw, there is a link to it in thesidebar now): img found @ knuttz.net This is actually a sculpture by an artist who goes by Pierre Matter. Pierre doesn’t seem to … Continue reading →

Here is an interesting question: how long would it take to send a petabyte of data from Sa Fran to Hong Kong? Jonathan Schwartz of Sun makes a very interesting point: it would actually be faster to ship that data … Continue reading →

If you have subscribed to my /dev/random feed you have probably seen this already. If you don’t know about /dev/random – it’s a tumblr to which I post funny or interesting images shamelessly stolen from other places on the web. … Continue reading →

Did you ever consider buying Das Keyboard the über cool totally black deck, with no lettering on the keys? I know I did. I know you did too. Don’t even deny it! You know that it’s cool, and you know … Continue reading →

I have been messing around with this all morning and I can’t figure it out. Is there something wrong with the mail() function in PHP4? No matter what I do, all the emails sent by my PHP scripts appear to … Continue reading →

I’m running a fairly standard WIMP setup at work: Win 2003, IIS, PHP4, MySQL (note, this website is LAMP). One of my users just got the dreaded CGI error: The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set … Continue reading →

I bought a 320 GB external Lacie drive specifically for the purpose of backing up my Windows box. Yesterday I tried to push a 32GB Windows backup archive onto it, and I was told that I don’t have space on … Continue reading →

After all that supposed data loss excitement I have launched Freelancer to play for a bit. I immediately noticed that I was sitting in a shitty light fighter ship, and recalled that I was working toward a nice heavy fighter … Continue reading →

Here is a tip for you – when you are swapping hard drives of the same size, and from the same vendor label them using a sharpie so that you don’t mix them up. You see, my Windows box has … Continue reading →

Everyone seems to be really loving Tumblr these days. It is yet another Web 2.0 service that lost a vowel to gain the cool factor. So I decided to make my own Tumblr blog. Feel free to check it out … Continue reading →

Here is a quick and dirty way to see if the “MP” part of your LAMP or WIMP solution is ready for the DST time change. I tested all the production systems here today, and they seem to be working … Continue reading →

As I’m writing my thesis I’m running tests on an old SMP Solaris machine. Obviously, I need to provide the specs of this machine in the paper so that the readers can see my results in context (ie why everything … Continue reading →

People always ask me how many lines I wrote for my thesis research project. I really don’t keep track of details like that – I just concentrate on accomplishing the goals and getting results. But I figured that I should … Continue reading →

I just found out that my thesis extension caused an infinite loop in the MSU administration procedures. Let me explain this: I can’t get a grade for the thesis “course” until I finish and defend it. I can’t finish my … Continue reading →

Warning: Major Spoilage for Lost: Enter 77 below. Color me confused. All up to this point I was entirely convinced that the Others were either descendants of the original DHARMA initiative, or that they were people who came in later … Continue reading →

Someone at work recently told me that some of our clients are “two spaces after a period” natzis. These people will actually take a 50+ page audit report, and have someone go over it sentence by sentence counting the number … Continue reading →

This is an actual conversation I had at lunch today (note we all watched the latest episode of BSG – if you didn’t you may get spoiled): cow-orker-1: So what do you think about BSG? me: I don’t get why … Continue reading →

I just found Freetalk – a tiny console based Jabber client. I love it! It has almost no memory footprint, it doesn’t steal focus like some of the GUI apps and (which is possibly the bast part) it doesn’t look … Continue reading →

I just noticed that my Event Viewer on my Windows box is filled with the following error notifications: The device, \Device\Harddisk0\D, has a bad block. Everything I know and that I have read about this message tells me that this … Continue reading →