Don’t you hate that… When it’s 2:00am… and you really should be in bed… But your mind has hold of a problem, and wont let it go. I have a project where it would be really handy for a process to be able to lock (arbitrary string identifier) and for another process to be able [...]
If you live and work by your phone And you have indoor pets Do not, under any circumstances, place your phone near and above a large glass of water. We now return you to your regularly scheduled internet
So now back off to the vet to pick up the dog who’s gonna spend most of the next few weeks being MISERABLE because he’s gonna have to be crated a a LOT, wont be able to play with the other dogs at all for a while, and will have to wear a satellite-dish-collar. On [...]
Well… everything that could go wrong this weekend (outside work) has gone wrong. My replay tv is dying My wifes laptop is dying I have one dog getting out of surgery right now because of a hematoma I have one cat with ringworm One cat got the crap beat up out of her in a [...]
Well at the zoo we lost a pair of glasses, so off to lensecrafters… no eye exam in 3 years… so eye exam… 2 hors for glasses… and WHAM a day thats supposed to end at 4:00pm ends at 9:00pm… sigh… we now return you to your regularly scheduled blogging.
Occam’s razor strikes again! Tonight we ran into an interesting problem. A web service – with a very simple time-elapsed check – started reporting negatives… Racking our brain, pouring over the code, produced nothing. It was as if the clock were jumping around randomly! No! On a whim Barry checked it and the clock was, [...]
I’m the kinda guy who owns up to my mistakes. I also strive to be the kinda guy who learns from them. So I figured I would pass this on as some good advice from a guy who’s “screwed that pooch” There was a project on which I was working, and that project sent me [...]
I began looking at divshare a few days ago as a way to stor, save, and share my personal photo collection. The idea of auto-galleries, unlimited space, flash video, and possible FTP access was… enticing. But it’s tough to tell how something like this is going to work on a large scale… So… after messing [...]
I know, I know, I’ve been silent for quite some time. Well Let me assure you that I’m quite all right! Are you less worried about me now? Oh good. (Yes I’m a cynical bastage sometimes.) So life has, as it tends to do, come at me pretty fast. I’ve left my previous employer, Ookles, [...]
Rentzsch.com says programmers don’t like to code… Yea… I’ll buy that. I’ve described “what I do” to many many people as “solving tough problems.” I’d much rather get into the problem itself than write all the scaffolding and crap that lets me get face to face with it. So yea. Sign me up. Cheers