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The Magpie Developer
Jeff Atwood is one of the best programmer/writers around. I love reading his stuff, some I agree wholeheartedly with, other stuff we disagree, but this post is about a dead-on as they come. This idea has been floating in my head for a long time, but it is hard for me to conceptualize it in words, Atwood does a brilliant job at it. Must read for any developer. |
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Andy Olmsted's Last Blog Entry.
(Warning: Pretty rough) No matter how you feel politically about the war, this reminds you that each number people throw around as statistics is a human life. This is extremely well written, and pretty rough on your soul towards the end, but something everyone should read. Its a shitty situation all around, but there is always a human face behind the statistics and I want to make sure I never forget that. |
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Drinking stories that put yours to shame
Via Keith
To preserve his body during the voyage home, the second-in-command stored Nelson's body in the ship's vat of rum and halted all liquor rations to the crew. Not a bad idea, but when the ship reached port, officials went to retrieve Nelson's body and found the vat dry.
Disregarding good taste (in every sense), the crew had been secretly drinking from it the entire way home. After that, naval rum was referred to as Nelson's Blood. |
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making vodka pills in 24 hours
Recently, Chef Fabian was experimenting further with the Adria/Torreblanca technique of making 'vodka pills.' I use this word to describe the process of making liquid-filled candies by pouring flavored alcohol syrups into cornstarch and letting it set until a hard outer shell forms. |
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Strategy Letter VI - joelonsoftware.com
As a programmer, thanks to plummeting memory prices, and CPU speeds doubling every year, you had a choice. You could spend six months rewriting your inner loops in Assembler, or take six months off to play drums in a rock and roll band, and in either case, your program would run faster. Assembler programmers don’t have groupies.
Entire Article is Dead On. A must read for anyone in the software biz. |
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(Tuesday, May 24)
May 24th Links
I personally think Jacko is a little off his rocker. But the more and more I read about the testimony from other stars and the circumstances surrounding the case, the more I think he is innocent (atleast with this kid). He just sets him self up so easily to be having to face charges like this.
Jay Leno Testifies
I could literally sit here and listen to insound.com for hours.
build your own, you must.
GreaseMonkey and this new Scraper/Augmentor Piggy-Bank are making IE obsolete. The real question is when are people gonna start making money off of it.
Bourbon Hangover.
There has been a problem in Google with 302 redirects for about the past year or so. Multiple times no one from Google will comment on it, and I don't know if they are trying to pretend that it does not exist, or don't want to. The problem (in simple terms) comes from 302 redirects which were created so that when you "temporarily" move a page in your site you can issue a 302 redirect to a search engine's spider to say "Hey this page still exists, it has just moved to this location at X". Well Google (and other search engines) follow those and take the "credit" (it is way more complicatedthan this, I am simplifiing) that it has issue to a certain site and applies it to a new site. Well micheavous web sites have been 302'ing other websites and waiting for the temp hold to loosen up and then Google somehow thinks that it needs to apply the credit back to the old site. To give Google credit I have seen examples of people saying that this is actually working for the michevous sites and also examples of them saying it isn't and examples of a magical fairyland with a race of fairies elf hybrids put your site in a jail cell called a "sandbox" but that is another story all together. Regardless I have not figured out if this was the way that this person achieved this, but if you google the word "Adsense" (Google Textual Ad Product) you will see that Google itself has been a victim of a 302 redirect. They rank as number #2 to all-in-one-business.com or somthing. Google.com should rank well for anything Googly on Google. Infact now they rank 2nd, behind another domain (the mischevious one). What better way to prove to Google that the problem exists than to trump them. Very Very nice SE hack. Now I just have to figure out why when you search for 'Cyanbane' on Google my fat toilet seat post comes up as my sites main.
Adsense google Search
More about 302 redirects.
They are now selling Leroy T-Shirts.. If you don't know LEERRRROOOOOY JENKINS you should and you will.
Disney's Flash based MMORPG. Flash really has come a long way.
Bobby's Entourage gets in a fight at Justin's Restaurant, also Bobby got arrested at a restaurant here in Alpharetta. I think i am gonna start a Tour of Bobby's Favorite Atlanta Restaurants.
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Travis - The Boy With No Name
Travis is back. I wouldn't say I hated 12 memories, it was meant to be very political, I just thought it went a little overboard and was somewhat preachy. Then when the greatest hits CD came out to be honest I was really hoping it didn't mean the end to one of my favorite brit bands. Boy With No Name is everything they were capable of. Supurb CD all the way through. Every song is brilliant. Big Chair is probably my favorite song and the opening to the CD on 3 Times is as good as it gets in music imho. |
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Pop! Why Bubbles are Great For The Economys (Gross)
One of the better economic books I have read in while, where the author gets their premise across in a well written, clear and concise manner. Basically Gross believes that the infrastructure left over after economic bubbles, provides companies with the ability to move forward (maybe more than the original bubble did). Not a hard read, I would definitely suggest it for a day and the beach/lake. |
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Feist - The Reminder
I CANNOT GET "I feel it all" OUT OF MY HEAD. Period. Great album, angelic voice. |
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Catan - Xbox Live Arcade
I am hopelessly addicted to this board-turned-video game on the xbox360. I had never played the board game but had seen it being played in some comic shops growing up. Click the Pick and play the demo, it isn't the 360 interface, but same game. |
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Arctic Monkeys - Favorite Worse Nightmare
No Sophomore slump here. Just as good (if not better) than Whatever they Say. |
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Beautiful Evidence (Tufte)
Tufte reads like a text book, most people would say bleh, but the information about "information" that he can deliver is top notch. My first Tufte book was "A Visual Display To Quantitative Information" and it was extremely well done, albeit confusing at time. I think beautiful Evidence is a little easier of a read (I am still only half way through it) and a little easier for myself to understand the ideas he is presenting.. |
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Fountains of Wayne - Traffic and Weather
Fountains of Wayne are the Gods of pop music. If Welcome Interstate Managers was a collection of short stories in song form, then Traffic and Weather is an even better collection with more humor. I already feel like CNN has the hottest female anchors, imagining them throwing their lust around like the Title track to the CD makes it even better. |
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Game of Thrones (Martin)
I started this book assuming it was going to be a high fantasy novel. Elfs, Dragons, Magic and the like. It isn't. It IS fantasy but more surrounding the politics and cunning of a few high ranking families. Incest, Murder, Intrigue, unscrupulous midgets. It has it all and more. |
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Disclaimer
The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in anyway.
© Copyright 2003-2007, Eric Thompson |
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