Archive for May, 2008
Friday, May 30th, 2008
I ran into this problem a while back and wanted to share it. It was a bit unintuitive but documentd so I guess I shouldn't be surprised by the results. Hopefully this will help someone else avoid this pitfall.
It looks as if declaring a variable with the "my" statement but ...
Posted in Perl, Programming | View Comments
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
A common idiom is "Don't judge a book by its cover" but I think that in this modern age this needs to rehashed into "Don't judge words by their author."
How often do we look at the author before we read an article or blog post? And how does this impact ...
Posted in General, Musings | View Comments
Saturday, May 24th, 2008
A nice change of scenery for the long weekend. It's amazing how quiet the nights are when you are not in the city.
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
So I am porting this blog over from wordpress.com to my own local hosting. Please bear with me and I'll hopefully have more things to read soon.
Edit: I did a rough job changing the dates in the database so the posts should all have the actual post date now.
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
I've recently been reading some articles opposing the use of brainteasers during interviews on the grounds that they are unfair and some people have difficulty thinking on the spot. You can make the same argument for any part of the interview process and I feel that brainteasers may even attract ...
Posted in General, Interview | View Comments
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Since when did printers stop coming with the cables? Does this have anything to do with printers being available in USB form and the manufacturers suddenly assuming that everyone already has USB cables? Or is it some agreement that they have with merchants that requires me to pay $20 for ...
Posted in Business, Musings | View Comments
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Although it's wonderful to think that we will be able to colonize other worlds when we grow too numerous or run out of resources, it may not happen. It seems that given the level of current weapons and state of the world we will more likely try to conquer each ...
Posted in Business, General | View Comments
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Recently I've discovered a few words where I know the definition and spelling but I don't know the pronunciation. The problem is that I think I know how to pronounce them so when I use them for the first time in conversation, or hear someone using them, some confusion arises (as well as making ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
I find it absurd that the average prisoner costs $25,000 a year to keep in prison ($75,000 for death row) and yet we still have homelessness in the United States. Each one of the homeless may start committing some type of crime in order to get into prison and at ...
Posted in Musings, Policy | View Comments
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
A little unexpected but I think this was the right decision for Microsoft for a couple of reasons:
1. Jerry Yang was doing everything in his power to prevent MS from acquiring Yahoo - what type of message does that send and how must the employees of Yahoo feel if their ...
Posted in Business, Technology | View Comments
