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When in Doubt....

So everyone knows of the two Air Marshals (what a dumb title) who shot the bi-polar dude who claimed to have a bomb. And rightly so. And despite this being a fairly non-humorous situation, this bit from ABC News made me laugh: "After the shooting, investigators spread passengers'

Daimler Chrysler and the Java Crisis

According to statcounter, someone at Daimler Chrysler (who was using Windows XP and a screen resolution of 1024x768 ... eek) needs help "converting" an OutputStream to an InputStream. The exact question was phrased, convert outputstream to inputstream. I think that there could be at least a couple fairly legitimate

The Super Secret InputStream

According to the log file, some poor soul stumbled across my blog while searching for covert inputstream to string on Google. And sure enough ... second site. Sweet. Anyway, going out on a limb here, I think he was probably meaning convert. For the benefit of Google indexing, I'll

They're Lucky We Allow Them To Exist

I got this from mediamatters.org. It's a collection of wonderful bits of commentary regarding Canada. The first part is mostly Ann Coulter and is fairly amusing. The second part is this dude on CNN and it is entirely hysterical. Turn up the volume. Listen carefully. Share with

Recruiters

Every career has its annoyances and in the world of Tech and Computing that annoyance is the Recruiter. This sub-Human species performs keyword matching between Resumes and Job Descriptions with a level of inaccuracy that could only be simulated by an Artificial Intelligence vastly more sophisticated than anything which will

Impiety, n.

One of the funnier Devil's Dictionary definitions: "Impiety, n. Your irreverence toward my deity" And you too can own this amazing tome, and help the rich get richer at the same time, by buying it here:

Blood Mountain (20051029)

"idiot computer science major" click to play "don't jump!" click to play The rest of the pictures can be found here.

The Mailbox Militia

I don't actually have any photographic evidence of the perp behind this continued mauling of my mailbox, but none of the evidence points away from this being an orchestrated attack by Union of Soccer Moms (Google link here). So covert is this clandestine organization, that not even Google

A Million Monkeys (Doing Geometry)

Hypothetically, let's say that you didn't much care for high school, begrudgingly (and briefly) attended college, slavedaway as a salariedminion for years, turned free-lance, and found yourself in the position of needing to migrate geometry data from MapInfoSpatialWare running on SQL Server to PostGIS running on

Happy Birthday, Universe!

Yet another revolution of this planet, around Sol, and back to its initial starting location - for those of us (realistically, it's probably not plural) who hold to the theory that the universe's existence, prior to this day some twenty-six years ago, was largely unnecessary. So,

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