“Last IPv4 blocks are given out”
It’ll be interesting to see how the Internet copes with the IPv4 address squeeze, until IPv6 finally makes enough inroads to make a difference.
Archive of posts filed under the Interests category.
Topics on my particular interests.
Busy, busy, busy…
Sorry for the lack of posts recently. The title says it all — I’ve been quite busy for the last couple weeks. For one thing, I’ve been working on my Stack Overflow reputation, with the goal of reaching 2,000 reputation points. Why, you ask? Well, I like explaining things to interested people, and I enjoy …
The DMCA Bites Back
I love seeing politicians being caught in their own traps.
Autumn Office Cleaning
Spurred by the death of my desktop system a few days ago, I spent most of yesterday cleaning up and rearranging the office, especially my desk. I hadn’t intended to spend much time on it. My initial plan was just to remove the carcass of the desktop system and store it somewhere out of the …
Geeky Programmer Quote of the Day
From the first (and so far only) comment to this Stack Overflow answer: BTW, it’s “complement”, not “compliment”. One’s compliment could be “that’s a nice sign bit you’re wearing today”. – Roddy It’s a computer science thing. 🙂
“Wanted: Intelligent Aliens, for a Research Project”
A very interesting look at the problems with human perception, and how that affects our understanding of ourselves.
“You Can Have Anything You Want…”
“…but you can’t have everything you want.” Those wise words come from one of Barbara Sher’s life-planning books, I believe. The idea is that, if you devote yourself to it, you can achieve pretty much any goal you set your mind to — pretty standard stuff in that kind of book — but by the …
GTD Progress
While I was gearing up for my most recent attempt at GTD (and my most successful one, by far), I went to the local office-supply store and picked up several boxes of file folders. GoddessJ, my wife, protested: “what do you need all of those for?” (My flip answer, “it’s a GTD thing, you wouldn’t …
There’s No Antonym of Authoritarian
In a conversation a while back, I needed a word to express the opposite of authoritarian. I couldn’t find one in my memory, which struck me as odd, so I later looked it up. It seems that there is no English word that describes the opposite of authoritarian; the closest thing I found, after perusing …
The Stack Overflow Website
Stack Overflow, the programmer Q&A site that Joel Spolsky (of Joel on Software) and Jeff Atwood (of Coding Horror) have been putting together, finally opened its public beta doors yesterday. I’d been following its development closely through their podcast, and when I came up with an obscure programming problem this morning, I decided to try …