| Happy Birthday! |
[Posted on Monday, the 1st of February 2010 at 10:58 pm] |
Happy (belated) birthday,
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ariskari
I knew I'd forgotten something... |
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[Posted on Friday, the 29th of January 2010 at 11:42 pm] |
How to solve boredom and make 2 hours vanish:
Sit down in front of the TV, and flick through the channels in the hope of finding something interesting. Spot Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, and start watching it. Get up during a commercial break to take supper out of the oven, and realise that you a) own the DVD, b) the DVD will be better quality, and most importantly c) the DVD doesn't have commercials. Put the DVD on at where the broadcast left off, and then 2 hours later wonder where the time went. |
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[Posted on Thursday, the 28th of January 2010 at 12:26 am] |
Bah, I knew I'd forgotten something today. Something critical, something of vital importance.
I spent the whole day trying to work out what it was that I could not remember. I'm sure that whatever it is would explain the worrying messages I got from talismancer about some dreams he's been having... but I haven't a clue.
I have a vague recollection of something happening this time last year, and the year before that. Now that I think about it... I'm sure something first happened in 2005. All I can remember from that day is Jabberwocky. There was a Jabberwock, and something... vorpal? I don't think it was a sword though.
It wasn't until a few minutes ago - midnight, to be precise - that I remembered. Ah, that explains it all. |
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| Hugs meme |
[Posted on Wednesday, the 27th of January 2010 at 11:32 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | meme | ] |
| [ | What |
| |  sleepy | ] |
| [ | Who |
| | Kitten Moon ~ Fluke/Risotto | ] |
Mostly straight copy pasta from talismancer:
Bandwagon, oh cheerful bandwagon I hear your siren song..
Comment here, and I'll give you one reason why I like you. Repost and spread the love. |
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[Posted on Monday, the 25th of January 2010 at 9:15 pm] |
If I've understood the man page correctly, under Linux it is not an error for the write() function to not, in fact, write anything. Logically, this means that write() could be implemented as
ssize_t write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count)
{
return 0;
}
This would be simultaneously a) a fully conforming implementation, and b) completely useless. |
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[Posted on Sunday, the 24th of January 2010 at 5:11 pm] |
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My 3G dongle is mocking me. It'll pick up a signal and let me connect, then drop as soon as I've signed into MSN messenger. |
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| Posted via boggyb's WAP gateway |
[Posted on Saturday, the 23rd of January 2010 at 1:00 pm] |
Today's discovery is that a young person's railcard takes about 6 minutes to buy. Of course, I had less than 6 minutes in which to get my train. Grr. |
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[Posted on Tuesday, the 19th of January 2010 at 7:30 pm] |
| [ | What |
| |  peeved | ] |
| [ | Who |
| | A Whisper ~ Coldplay/A Rush Of Blood To The Head | ] |
Today's "implementation detail" was a system that defines arrays with a range 0 to N, then completely ignores the N'th element:
Dim foo(2)
foo(0) = "alpha"
foo(1) = "beta"
...
For i = 0 to UBound(foo) - 1
DoSomethingUseful(foo(i))
Next
For those of you who don't know Visual Basic, the first statement declares an array with a range of 0 to 2 inclusive. UBound returns the highest valid index in the array (in this case, 2). For added fun, there was at least three layers of functions and several thousand lines of code between the two, and Visual InterDev's debugger refused to connect to anything. So when I innocently added a foo(2) = "gamma" and expected something useful to happen, all that actually happened was nothing.
In fairness, the person responsible for that was under tight time pressures when he wrote it. |
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[Posted on Sunday, the 17th of January 2010 at 10:50 am] |
Isn't it amazing how people completely fail to read the "how to unsubscribe" instructions? Y'know, the one that's at the end of every email on this mailing list?
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[Posted on Saturday, the 16th of January 2010 at 12:09 pm] |
*ring ring* (appears as a withheld number)
"Hello?"
*click*
Well, if you weren't going to say anything then why did you phone me in the first place? |
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| Happy Birthday! |
[Posted on Wednesday, the 13th of January 2010 at 9:09 pm] |
Happy belated birthday,
ksleet
Happy birthday,
ladysparrow
Let's see how long I manage to keep this up this year. I keep thinking I should just script it. |
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| Four Candles |
[Posted on Wednesday, the 13th of January 2010 at 8:18 pm] |
Today's achievement was an impromptu Four Candles performance. I needed to burn a CD-R for something, so I asked one of the guys if he had any. Now, our software generates logfiles known as CDR files, so usually when someone at work is talking about CDRs they mean the files or the data within the files. Cue a couple of minutes of going back-and-forth "what sort of CDRs?" "A CD-R!" before another guy realised what was happening and expanded the abbreviation.
Today's discovery was that Nero doesn't like it if you rename a file that you're going to burn to disc. Of course, I found this out after it'd happily burnt a CD containing an empty 600MB zip file. |
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[Posted on Tuesday, the 12th of January 2010 at 10:21 pm] |
Today's discovery (well, reminder) is that the work fire alarm goes "nee-naw-nee-naw", not "RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG". The latter is a server cupboard temperature alarm, one of which went off today. 'Course, our office had all made it as far as the stairs before realising this and turning back.
There is something wrong about servers overheating while the outside temperature is barely above freezing. |
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[Posted on Tuesday, the 5th of January 2010 at 8:31 pm] |
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Snow
Taken at 8:20pm, 5th Janurary 2009. 5s, f2.8, ISO 100, converted to greyscale afterwards. |
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[Posted on Tuesday, the 5th of January 2010 at 5:36 pm] |
Snow! Real, heavy, settling snow!
In Southern England! |
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