Category: General

A really, really strange thing happened yesterday. Something that shook the rock of my faith in TiVo and vegetables. We were watching something that we had recorded on TiVo. Suddenly, the program cut out and was replaced with a...

Here's my Emacs gem of the day. Let's say you're writing code and you or the folks you work with like to line up all your variable declarations in nice, neat columns - e.g.: int number; const Thingamajig foo; float fraction; It...

Chris astutely observed that Ruby is Smalltalk for people who have to have files. Well I think that Dylan is Lisp for people who hate parentheses. Or if you prefer analogies: Dylan is to Lisp as Ruby is to Smalltalk. Both try to...

Did that just say "coyote urine"? Why yes it did. Apparently it repels certain animals like deer, cats, and dogs. Wonder if that includes humans?...

Weird Mac OS X error, originally uploaded by msabramo. I've never seen this one before! Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x00000000F76D066C PC=0x00000000000AA6AC Latest crash info for cpu 0: Exception state...

Holy crap, this is funny. Natalie Portman gangsta rap from SNL

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....