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Tip

admin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:20:26 +0000

If you walk stiff legged and try to refrain from sitting, you can greatly decrease the liklihood of wearing out the knees of your pants, provided you’re wearing pants.

Freak Me Out

admin — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:52:35 +0000

Freak Me Out

Freak me out

Give me a heart attack

I thought you meant

When you said

You said

I mean

Freak me out

Give me a heart attack

Subjectivity

admin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:43:01 +0000

I think subjectivity and vagueness is in everything. Assumptions are, aparently, neccessary. The more cleverly they are hidden, the more scientific they appear- despite the fact that in order to obscure them, you must relocate them closer and closer to the axiom(s).

Favicon

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:45:12 +0000

I think it’s a good idea to regularly change your favicon to remind customers that you exist just a click away, for if they have their bookmarks displayed visibly as buttonsÂ I do this, and one of my links on my Bookmarks Toolbar is Amazon.com, and I display it as an Icon only. Recently they changed their Favicon enough to draw my attention to it (It changed the appearance of the environment I look at every day) but not so much as to appear unfamiliar. Google has been doing this with their logo. The familiarity of the change added, I think, to their overal public image signature.Â I think it might work because it links the icon (and thereby the business [like a pointer]) to both your present awareness, but alsoÂ in your memory, so your thinking about the icon (and thereby the business) from two different perspectives, using two different processes of your brain.

Come to think of it, Weather.com does something similar but with a diminished frequency- I think it might be that they change their banner and theme seasonally.Â I can’t remember what they are now or what they’ve recently been though. This tells me that it’s likely that one can build an immunity to this tactic- still it can’t be the only trick in your bag. I think that you’ll reach a point where you filter things like that out of your comprehensive view.Â Who knows-

Linked Lists

admin — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:20:27 +0000

What is my problem with linked lists?Â I love them. They’re simple and ingeniously so. I understand them and I know how they work. I could write one from scratch. So why do I have this aversion to them (and for that matter arrays)?Â It feels like laziness.Â Somehow the idea of sitting down and writing one, despite the fact that it would completely be the simple, God given key to writing an interesting program, find myself irritated by the very idea of doing so?

Maybe it’s that I learned it using the word ‘Node’. Something about it puts me off. Kind of like how PHP uses dollar signs preceding variable names (or the really irritating fact that the dot operator is signified by a plus sign and the symbol for concatenation [generally indicated by a plus sign since concatenation can easily be seen as Adding Things Together] is a fucking dot.).Â It irritates me- look at a page of PHP code and you’ll see- a bunch of dollar signs, question marks (particularly irritating) and angle brackets and leading double underscores

__who $wants.(’ to’) $that?

Irritating. So the word “Node” is like that to me. Maybe. Even the name “Linked Lists” puts me off.Â I hate lists- they make me think of grocery lists and to-do lists and I hate those. I don’t use them, fail miserably, because of it and I’m fine with that.Â I probably should address that too. What to call it though? Pointer Chain? At least it’s got chains. What to call a Node?Â A Node I guess. I lose. A Pointer? How is it different than a neatly designed systemÂ of organizing pointers? I guess I should get over my aversion to the term Linked LIst.Â Maybe I should just start naming nodes “Pointer”.Â PHP is still ugly though.

Television

admin — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:46:53 +0000

T.V. is so weird.

Oats

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:18:38 +0000

Mares eat oats

and Does eat oats

and little Lambs eat ivy

A kid’ll eat ivy too, wouldn’t you?

Yo baby, got a no-no?

admin — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:14:29 +0000

Check out Steven Jesse Bernstein:

spoken poetry put (posthumously I believe) to music.

Intere

well…

admin — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:50:02 +0000

I finally got the blog page to display posts. It was a stupid oversight on my part. All I had to do to fix it was to chnage the setting for Reading to choose a page on which to display posts. Automated. Easy.

Overall, the site looks good.Â It has been educational in a strange way- learning how to use some other person’s program to create a website.

I need to arrange the music pages in a better way though…

postt2

admin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:21:41 +0000

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