Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Non-Emergency Calls to 999 Emergency Centre
This will shame some folks in to stopping. I suspect it'll also generate copycat calls. I wonder if putting them up will make things better or worse?
Monday, July 28, 2008
Perspective
Mr. Wesley Emch contrasts the current Favre shambles with the example of his son, Hospitalman Lucas Emch. Thank you for taking the time to remind us about what is important.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Contrasting Ends of Life
Randy Pausch, famous for his Last Lecture, has left us.
Edward "Eddie" Davidson, the spam king who just escaped from prison, apparently did the unthinkable before checking out.
The immense difference between how these men lived their lives-- all the way to the end-- struck me when both stories landed in my reader a few minutes apart.
Edward "Eddie" Davidson, the spam king who just escaped from prison, apparently did the unthinkable before checking out.
The immense difference between how these men lived their lives-- all the way to the end-- struck me when both stories landed in my reader a few minutes apart.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Everyone knows someone...
...who drags every 10 second phone call out to 10 minutes. Even folks who don't do it regularly can still end up gabbing. SlyDial offers an interesting workaround if you are calling a mobile number.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
Friday, July 11, 2008
Rehabilitation by fire
No money for a dangerous, hellish job but the pride and self esteem might go further than any other program the state can offer. I'd love to recidivism see stats on these folks.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Monday, July 7, 2008
C in a browser
Quake in a browser.
The boundaries between script, tokenized, and fully precompiled languages are just going away. This is a good thing but it's a big change for old timers. Stevey talked about a similar topic the other day too.
The boundaries between script, tokenized, and fully precompiled languages are just going away. This is a good thing but it's a big change for old timers. Stevey talked about a similar topic the other day too.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
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