Where do wits begin?
I caught myself saying something rather pointless today, “I’m at my wits end.” Later, despite painful introspect, I could find no reliable method of determining the beginning of my wits. How, then, could I be so certain that I was at the end of my wits and not at the beginning? If something has an [...]
Revenge of the nerds
I saw a re-run of “Revenge Of The Nerds” recently, the gears in my head have been turning ever since. In seventh grade, the captain of the school wrestling team stuffed my head in a toilet and flushed it several times. Not any toilet, a ‘public school boy’s room’ toilet. In eighth grade, an over-developed [...]
Earthquake shakes Metro Manila
I’ve been to many cities that are prone to the occasional mild rumble from mother nature (low scale tremors), today I experienced something a little bigger. I was at my desk, writing, when all of a sudden I felt everything swaying. My chair (and me as its contents) rolled backwards on a level surface. I [...]
Common blogging pitfalls
Preface : I’m not hoping to tout this particular blog as a shining example of ‘how to do it right’, nor do I profess to be an expert on the subject of developing a successful blog. I do, however, ghost write for several successful news and editorial blogs and have helped more than a hand [...]
China jump starts nanotech
Xie Sishen, one of the chief scientists at The Chinese Academy Of Sciences announced a $83.6 Million (620 million yuan) State sponsored ‘hot shot’ into the research and development of nanotechnology today, according to The Shanghai Daily. Nanotechnology, a multi-disciplined science of manipulating matter on a molecular scale allows tiny devices to escape the conventional [...]
GCC has a little big bug
There’s been a flurry of concerns over some very odd behavior found in gcc, the GNU collection of compilers. Since GCC compiles much more than just C, I don’t call it the GNU C compiler any more, as that would be a bit of a misnomer. GCC has a built in abs() (absolute value) function [...]
To AGPL, or not to AGPL?
The GNU Affero GPL v3 was recently released, a near carbon copy of the GPL3 with an additional clause specifying some additional rules regarding software that interacts with users over a network. WordPress, for example, is software that interacts with users over a network. So are many of the new ‘web based’ operating systems, where [...]
Spicy genes?
I love spicy food. When I refer to spicy food, I’m referring to things that touch you taste buds and cause you to cry for milk and mommy, in that order. I can drink hot sauce straight, I can eat ultra hot peppers such as habanero peppers like grapes, I could probably snort cayenne pepper [...]
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