Posts from 2005 (Page 5)

Chimp Tunes working better again

I was cleaning up some backend code of mine last week and ended up introducing a bug into the Chimp Tunes code that: Updates song titles in the database. Downloads cover art for display in your Snooze window. I finally figured out what was ...

A Half-Gram of Mescaline

Hannibal of Ars Technica visited Wired Magazine’s disappointing NextFest: I know if I were Japanese, I’d collect both models and watch them fight over a half gram of mescaline. Oh yeah, and for the five people I haven’t told yet, I’m off to Paris...

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The Next 50 Years of Software

I was pointed at this by Larry Osterman’s weblog today. It’s a paper written by Nathan Myhrvold (former CTO of Microsoft) for the ACM97 conference entitled The Next 50 Years of Software. It does a lot to explain software bloat, the changing role o...

Tech Ed Was a Blast

I had a terrific time at Tech Ed in Orlando last week, although I’m afraid that my liver is a bit under the weather now. I’m not going to bother rehashing the million other things that have already been said about it, except to plug the podcast vi...

Upcoming Video Games

A couple random games I’m looking forward to: Killer 7 - Gamecube - July 6 2005 Indigo Prophecy - Xbox - September 6 2005

PK Dick

The always inimitable Audrey of Seattlest fame just mentioned that Philip K. Dick was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. It’s about time, in my opinion. Dick’s storytelling has done more to shape modern science fiction than just about...

Civil Liberties

I made a donation just now to the ACLU. Although I have always supported them in spirit, I decided now was a perfect opportunity to support them financially. I make more than enough money to support causes dedicated to–among other causes–Gay and L...

Feet and Bacon

Gizmodo: Sometimes I ask him to rub my feet. Sometimes I ask him to explain himself very slowly, then close the AIM window and do it all over again while I fry up some bacon. (it’s far more innocuous than it sounds ;-)

The Quagmire President

Ruy Texiera has an interesting analysis of El Presidente’s first hundred days in his second term: The President’s miscalculation that a 2.5 percent margin of victory in the popular vote constitutes a mandate for trashing the New Deal’s most popula...