Natalie Portman gangsta rap
Holy crap, this is funny. Natalie Portman gangsta rap from SNL
Month: March 2006
Multiple dispatch in Ruby
I've been reading recently about Common Lisp and CLOS and I've been intrigued by their radically different approach to OO and some of their interesting features, one of which is multiple dispatch. Most mainstream OO languages...
Accessing C functions from CLISP
It's pretty impressive how easy it is to call C functions from Lisp, once you know the proper FFI voodoo. For example, this is how I accessed the standard C library function time from CLISP on my Linux system. (ffi:def-call-out...
New Series 2 TiVo box with 2 Tuners and Built-In Ethernet
There's a new TiVo box on the block: New Series 2 TiVo box with 2 Tuners and Built-In Ethernet There's not a ton of info available, except that Amazon lists these product features: Does not support recording from two digital...
TurboTax 2005 for Mac sucks
TurboTax on the Mac seems to be a big pile of garbage. First as I was importing my investment income from the Internet, I noticed that it downloaded all the correct amounts from my institution but then added duplicate entries for...
Bay Area housing market in decline?
It's become apparent that properties are staying on the market much longer than they used to - weeks and sometimes months. But so far, prices have either dropped a little or not at all it seems, depending on where you look....
Patching Bot Check plugin for WP 2.0
Having upgraded to WordPress 2.0 the other day, I knew that something had gone horribly wrong with the Bot Check plugin when I logged into my dashboard today and saw 33 comments in the moderation queue. A quick test revealed of...