Splog busters!
Get ‘em removed from Google. (Quick for you, painful for them.)
These guys have a database of splogs and an API Webmasters can call for updates.
Read more...Playing with Fedora 8 on the new Dell at work… Pretty nice. I feel like I jumped from Windows 95 straight to XP. It’s fast. Firefox popped up in 3 seconds. Even turned on wobbly windows for the hell of it. The main system menu and the various app menus still aren’t organized worth crap, though.
OK, why the hell can’t I find a Windows text editor with a “Filter Selection Through Command” option? TextMate has it. Even freaking KDevelop has it. Ctrl-A, Shift-space, “sort”, Enter, and my document’s sorted. (The Ctrl-space is a custom setting.) And piping it through Ruby only takes a fraction of a second.
Oh, I could very readily become a Linux user for that alone. But the experience outside my editor might drive me mad. Wonder if TextMate would be as fast as KDevelop?
Heh, 8 days till I’m outdated again - that’s when Fedora 9 is released.
Read more...Finally! Got past all the database and scheduler errors, and we’re talking to the remote Web service again. Good thing, ‘cause my boss was starting to tap his foot.
I can’t tell you how frustrating our in-house ORM is to work with. Fifty different kinds of database objects, and you have to know the system right down to the guts to do anything. If you could just run the generator and use the resulting objects, you’d be fine, but that’s never the case in the real world - SQL has to be customized, lists have to be cached, and it’s all exposed to all but the most casual user.
Read more...Miscellany...
The iTunes “Priority Electronic Music” playlist just burned a new CD for me, and it included some Stendeck… I realized that song that had been stuck in my head for a week but couldn’t remember who did it was one of his. He’s not an incredibly versatile artist, but at least I like his one style. (Yet another track with ultra lo-fi drums and sweeping, plaintive pads… Count me in!)
The new Goozex account is working out pretty nice. (They’re a game-trading service.) Finally, I can find good homes for the titles on the Pile of Shame that I know I’ll never get back to. Shipping stuff out is especially easy for me since I only have to stop by the mailroom.
Read more...How did this happen?
…and now I’ve got a Technotronic song stuck in my head. Hell, why don’t we bust out some Snap! and M.C. Hammer to round things out?
Read more...The second box was a monitor. :/ But that’s OK, now I can have a dedicated view to my task list like I’ve been wanting. And a replacement for the Windows machine should arrive within a month.
Plus, I can (temporarily) look super-important with my own in-cube server farm!
Two Dell boxes sitting behind me in my cube… I know at least one contains a GX755 with 2GB RAM, intended as a replacement for my Linux box. Hopefully the other contains the same, but with XP, as that would be the cure for my dragging Eclipse environment.
No time to mess with either one today, though. Gotta get this project debugged and running yesterday.
Read more...Bet you never thought about this before, but...
Why are those tiny candy bars you see at Halloween the ‘Fun Size’ ones? Are the bigger ones ‘Cumbersome Size’?
“What do you mean, I have to eat two ounces?”
Read more...Driving over a tumbleweed is not good for your car, but it is fun to watch someone else do. The things explode into a million tiny bits. It’s like dropping a bowling ball on shredded wheat.
Read more...Yaaaaay!
Finished in 3.329 seconds 127 examples, 0 failures, 89 pending jay@MINIME:C:workzyps $
Of course, there’s still those 89 pending examples, but at least I don’t have that dirty feeling from failing tests any longer.
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