Monthly Archives: June 2007

Recently I discovered Olivia Munn. First time I saw her was when she put on the Princess Leia bikini on the Star Wars anniversary special on G4: Then I found out that she is a host on the Attack of … Continue reading →

Subversion stores the state of your working directory in special hidden folders. Each subd-directory of your project will have exactly one hidden folder named .svn containing Subverion meta-data. When you want to archive your code or share it with someone … Continue reading →

People always tell me that Dell warranty phone support is utterly useless. I disagree. I think they are pretty good dispensers of free replacement hardware. I’m usually able to get a replacement part that I need in 15-20 minutes without … Continue reading →

Lulzworthy conversation of the week: coworker: “You know… Knuth kinda looks like Yoda” me: [googling for a picture] “OMG, I think he is Yoda!” Do you see the resemblance between Donald Knuth and Yoda? I think he was right! He … Continue reading →

Yesterday I spent some time talking to some dudes running a computer security company in NYC. They have used Ruby on Rails for one of their recent projects, and they were raving about it like madmen. I literally couldn’t make … Continue reading →

I just found this pic of Gigi dressed as a jedi, and holding a lightsaber: photo © Neil Davidson [original photo] Here is another one, this time without a robe: photo © Neil Davidson [original photo] Apparently these were taken … Continue reading →

If any of you added me to your buddy list, or have me as a contact in Gmail, you probably noticed that I sign in only once in a blue moon. There is a reason for this. I like to … Continue reading →

I was rummaging through the contents of my hard drive and I found PerfMonG – a minimalistic performance monitor that I wrote sometime back in 2004. At the time I wanted something like GKrellM on my Windows box, so I … Continue reading →

I was messing around with the Apache Xerces based XML DOMParser class (from the com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.dom package)for the JTwitt project and I noticed some quirky behavior. I used the following snippet of code: DomParser parser = new DOMParser(); parser.parse(new InputSource(xmlStream)); Document … Continue reading →