Switching Types Is Difficult
For the last week, I have been going between C and PHP depending on what happens to be in my editor at any given time. At some points, I was switching gears as much as every 30 minutes. I can’t explain how painful that is. Going from a strictly to dynamically typed language is like [...]
Bills And Snail Mail
I realized something today that was almost depressing, if it weren’t for bills, I would get no mail at all. Even in Asia, companies realize that anyone with a credit card account will have a computer and Internet (or at least convenient access to both), my mailbox is soon to become a dust collector. I’ve [...]
Why not use STDs as server names?
During recent conversation with fellow system integrators, I suggested that it is perfectly acceptable to name your servers after sexually transmitted diseases. After all, there are plenty of very descriptive diseases, take the following possible office chatter into consideration: Senior Admin: You, login to herpes and hop over to gential-warts, flush iptables and make sure [...]
Wear down your battery, without charge?
Pardon the pun in the title, it was not intentional. Every mobile provider needs a number that simply plays a tone, or perhaps some kind of music in a loop. When you purchase a new phone, it comes with 1/4 charge .. since some batteries still have a memory, you need to wear down the [...]
