Archive for February, 2009
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
I mentioned this picture once before, but I thought it deserved another outing. The reasons are clear:
It contains Robocop
It contain Richard Nixon
It contains Richard Nixon meeting Robocop
Richard Nixon looks amazingly happy
Robocop looks a little perturbed
The logo behind them is for The Boy Scouts of AmericaBoys Clubs of America
While you are ...
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Sunday, February 15th, 2009
A former colleage of mine (Hi Nigel!) frequently wore the greatest geek tee-shirt I have ever seen to work. Ineptly reproduced here, it summarizes the realities of software development - when deciding what to implement technical considerations are often overruled by more prosaic influences.
Take this comment by another old colleage. ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
So I was talking with the team at work and conversation drifted (as it so often does) to My Little Pony.
Just a bunch of guys talking about My Little Pony - nothing weird about that.
But then, mere hours later, a link to this collection of modified My Little Ponies ...
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
I see today that the minimum wage is going to rise from $12 to $12.50 this year. This is something I support, not only to keep up with inflation but also because it puts more money into the lowest section of the economy - always a good move in a ...
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
Living on a spherical planet can sometimes be a real pain in the neck. It makes what should be a simple concept, Time, inordinately complex. Timezones, daylight savings, leap years (and worse: leap seconds) all conspire to destroy any simple abstraction. So boost provides a complex one.
First up is the ...
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009
A while ago I created a font of my handwriting using a for-pay font-making website. For various reasons I was never terribly happy with the results, although I thought the small amount of money I was changed was a fair price. I kept using the font, waiting for something better.
That ...
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009
What better use of a long weekend take my girlfriend to Wenderholm Regional Park? And what better way to get there than the new(ish) long-awaited Northern Gateway Toll Road? 4 lanes of brand-new seal followed by a tunnel cutting its way through a inconvenient ridge, a bargain at only $2 ...
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Sam Hughes writes short, short form science fiction, most of which I quite like. This one is particularly good. So is this one. This one is very silly.
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