Archive for May, 2006

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 has this [...]

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. [...]

history

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

I just realized …
I’ve been on wordpress for a bit over a year. I started using it over GrayMatter in April, 2005.

I really need to import that old graymatter rss feed, huh! Guess that’s what I’ll do in the gaps at work!

Oh, and I’d say, other than random database glitches and the growing [...]

humanity and hero-worship

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

I don’t remember if I’ve written on this one before or not …
Newton wrote “If I have seen farther than others it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants”. In the process of what he did, he himself became a giant, on whose shoulders much of modern understanding still rests.
It’s easy [...]

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, [...]