Archive for the 'Beyond Nerddom' Category

the dangers of dogfood

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

So I just watched a channel9 video about Microsoft’s Sharepoint 2007 last night. It was interesting, how they’ve basically rolled their CMS product and their collab product into the same suite, and basically turned sharepoint from what seems to me to be a mediocre, spotty product into one that could be reasonably useful. Now, microsoft [...]

This has been a truly awesome weekend.

Monday, May 29th, 2006

So check it … Friday I didn’t do much, kinda came home and played DMC3 a bit (played Vergil’s normal mode through to about level 17). Vergil’s interesting, because if you want to have any flow at all you’ve basically got to tear up on custom combos, because he’s got so few canned strings. So [...]

Untraceables

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

I hate problems with non-obvious causes. Untraceables. Stuff like … the random wordpress annoyance. My boss’s laptop freezing intermittently. Stuff like that. It drives me nuts… when errors are totally non-reproducible. It’s really really hard to debug them when that’s the case, you know? I’m sitting here on my freshly innodb’ized blog, hoping that the [...]

Handy!

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

HKCR/Directory/shell That is all.

Proliferation of ideas across media

Monday, February 20th, 2006

Really good ideas proliferate from the medium they’re developed in. In fact, I would go so far as to say that the goodness (applicability, soundness, utility) of an idea can be directly measured by how many other things it’s infected. A few good examples of this: Evolution. Sure, creationists don’t buy it. But creationists can [...]