Archive for November, 2009

An odd thing happened on Friday: my “Get out of English Free” card didn’t work. Friday evening, while I was making the trek from 本山駅 to 名古屋駅, I was stuck on the subway with a bunch of over-active high school
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How many hours have you sunk into Solitaire since Windows 3.1? What style of play did you prefer? In my case, I took up the card game once again roughly six weeks ago as a way to distract myself from
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Every so often it’s fun to check out some statistics to see just how much time we waste on various activities.  Earlier today I decided to kill ten minutes to see what my Tweets might look like.  While the numbers
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GoDaddy:  The company was once one of my preferred online destinations whenever I needed a domain name, but has quickly devolved into a pile of AOL-like feces; the stench of which is so detestable that a single whiff can cause
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There’s been yet another report of data theft in the news, this time involving thousands of customer records at T-Mobile in the UK. CDs containing customer names, addresses, and the date their mobile contract ended were sold by employees of
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How easy is it for you to read Tweets, status updates, blog posts, or emails? i lyke too tok on teh web bkuz my bffs r on it Did you understand that one sentence?  I’m sure you did.  But could
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After about 10 days of using the site that everyone seems to be on, I’ve decided that it’s just not where I want to be.  It’s true that Facebook can connect us with people whom we’ve lost contact with in
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Earlier today @Papadimitriou and I were swapping Tweets about people on the train who openly read hentai manga, and later in the afternoon I get this comment left on my site: What the hell kind of comment is this?  First
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Yesterday the Mrs. and I decided to head out into the great outdoors to see some lovely autumn foliage.  The idea was one we had both been kicking around for a little while, and with both of us having Monday
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Do you insist on knowing the name and purpose of every directory and file on your computer?  Are you disgusted when applications create directories right off your root? If you said ‘yes’ to either of these questions, then you probably
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Several years ago I worked as a freelance programmer in my spare time to earn some extra money and learn new ways to solve difficult problems.  All in all, it was a lot of fun.  I did have the odd
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