After seven years of output, the HP ink jet printer had finally stopped working. Because it was never intended to be serviced by mortals, it was time to find a new one. Choosing a model can be as difficult as you want to make it because HP has an estimated six billion models. For once, […]
As a numberphile, I often find amusement in tracking numbers and analyzing the results in different ways. For example, when I flew, I maintained a logbook of every landing, aircraft type and flight conditions. In the unlikely event I would be quizzed, I could rattle off a variety of facts like “the last night landing
My tire had a weird bump-bump-bump to it on the way into work this morning. Since the tire was not losing air, and there was nothing obviously lodged in it, I assumed it was tar or gum or something. The mental note to look further once I got into work was apparently shredded. On the
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I am spam. Spam I am.
That Spam I am, that spam I am. I do not like that spam, I am.
In a typical day, I receive about 200 emails, not including spam. If I am out of the office for any appreciable time, the email accumulates faster than I can deal with it. Thanks to concentrated effort, my work email’s inbox is at its smallest since … before I started. While the goal-oriented part of
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Java, the “write once, run anywhere” language marketed as salvation from programming faux pas*, has its own, manic updater for the runtime version. In their case, “updater” really means “install subsequent versions of itself.” For example, on my work machine, I noticed this: No, I don’t know what happened to Updates 7 and 8. According
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(I’m in the process of migrating from WordPress back to MovableType — and catching up from being out of town for nearly two weeks last month. Content’s imported, but cross-linking is so McBroken, it’s not even funny.) Mitch found this interesting post from Business Pundit regarding The Pew Internet and American Life Project:
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Yesterday afternoon, both John and Steve reported the perma-links on my blog were serving up blank content. Steve, in his enthusiastic thoroughness, had tested this on several browsers. This pointed to something on the server-side, which was theoretically plausible since I had been doing work earlier, albeit on a completely different domain. After an hour
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