Month: March 2006

The Oscars: The Female Super Bowl

It occurred to me today that the Academy Awards (the Oscars) are basically the American female's Super Bowl. Many women look forward to the Oscars the way men look forward to the Super Bowl. It's an occasion to have parties. It's...

Python

The Python Tourist

Over at boodebr.org, there's a new series called "The Python Tourist". It's meant to be a series that highlights programming pitfalls in Python and from the first installment, "Passing Mutable Objects as Default Args", it looks...

C++GeneralProgramming

An unexpected peril of mixing C and C++

The other day at work we ran into a nasty little bug that was quite tricky and chewed up quite a few hours of a few people's time. So I thought that as a service to you, my loyal reader, I would post about it and warn you of this...

General

Craig Ferguson at the San Jose Improv

We saw Scottish comedian and CBS Late Late show host Craig Ferguson tonight at the San Jose Improv. Craig Ferguson at the San Jose Improv, originally uploaded by msabramo....

General

Zeni Ethiopian cuisine

Zeni Ethiopian cuisine, originally uploaded by msabramo. A few years ago I had Ethiopian cuisine for the first time at a restaurant in San Francisco and I loved it. I then lamented the fact that while there seem to be a few...

Programming

Intro to SCTP

A nice IBM developerWorks article that introduces the basic features of SCTP, such as multi-homing and multi-streaming, and shows you sample C code for a simple SCTP daytime client and server, using the Linux Kernel SCTP Project...