I want some new and interesting blogs to read, so leave a comment if you have any suggestions. I subscribe to quite a few (opml file here) but I’m a bit tired of the Microsoft Employee Bleating Edge Blog stuff… Ideally I’m looking for technical blogs with a “working programmer” slant. It would be nice if they were biased towards C++ but I don’t really care.
I think these guys are good, so more like this would be nice:
Just removed my first spam comments… It’s almost nice that the spammers think I’m worth spamming, but only almost… If this is anything like my email spam then I expect that this is just the start of a flood… Does anyone have any advice on how to prevent this kind of stuff when using MovableType as your blog software? I’ve added the spammer’s IP addresses to the list of addresses that can’t comment…
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… I made a contraption to enable me to strap a camcorder to my head whilst I skiied. As you can see, it wasn’t the most subtle of devices.
Well, times change. I upgraded my camcorder this year because I wanted a device with DV in for archive purposes. The new camera also has AV in and for Christmas Michelle bought me a weatherproof bullet camera which can plug into the AV in on the camcorder.
I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: “O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it.
Voltaire
From a comment in ESR’s blog. Given our current dealings with our building’s mismanaging agents this seems particularly appropriate right now.
I still have my ‘director of the management company for a building of 78 apartments’ hat on. It seems to have one of those little straps that goes under your chin. I don’t seem to be able to undo the strap…
I hope that the worst is over. We held a meeting with the residents which went really well, we got 100% support for our actions and lots of offers of help.
I’ve been really busy this last week. The building in which I live is having some issues with its managing agent. I’m on the board of directors for the “company” that runs the building and this week things finally came to a head and we had to take over day to day management of the building from the managing agents that were previously “acting” for us. This has led to me being really busy with all kinds of stuff that I wouldn’t usually care to do…
We have a Maytag fridge and very nice it is too. However, sometimes it seems to be too cold and things freeze up. After far too long procrastinating and just excepting that cold was how fridges were supposed to be I called Maytag for support…
I hadn’t bothered to register the fridge when I bought it. We were busy with doing up the flat and sending in the registration card seemed low on the list of priorities.
This is a nice story about the birth of Murphy’s Law. Yes, there was really a Murphy…
From the 2003 Ig Nobel prizes, via Barry.
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It seems that iNTj’s are big into contingency planning and, in general, most other people aren’t; that explains a lot…
Whenever I find myself in an unexpected situation the first thing I always think is “what’s the worst case scenario?”. Once I’ve explored the worst case and worked through an exit strategy from that I start to work on the more likely outcomes, but I always do the worst case first.
