Miniblog articles for July 2004
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Friday 2nd, 15:21
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- Somebody's gone a bit cast crazy here:
(wxObjectEventFunction) (wxEventFunction) (wxCommandEventFunction)
MyFrame::OnQuit
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Friday 2nd, 15:31
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- It is not possible to think about programming in a hot office with two people
(one quiet, one not) on the phone, and what I'm guessing is a fecking
industrial vacuum cleaner next door.
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Monday 5th, 08:29
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- I'm investigating PL/pgSQL (the PostgreSQL procedural language).
The documentation kindly points out the situations where it's necessary to use
10 consecutive single quotes. Nice.
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Monday 5th, 14:22
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- The office door wedge gnomes are back. They've stolen yet another of our
rubber door wedges, and this time replaced it with a crappy wooden one that
doesn't stick. Sneaky bastards.
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Tuesday 6th, 20:26
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- Just watched a Japanese film called Wild Zero. At first I thought it was a
gritty punk rock flick. But then these fucking zombies show up, and there's a
pretty girl who's… unusual… and then it really starts getting weird.
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Friday 9th, 11:53
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- Does your WSDL file tell you
all this?
I didn't think so.
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Sunday 11th, 15:37
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- How
to assemble an IKEA computer desk
(via Overcaffeinated). Heh heh.
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Monday 12th, 10:18
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- Vim macros aren't a very fast way to edit large database tables.
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Wednesday 14th, 17:57
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- “Please, God, just put my program together and run it as fast as You can
and I will never eat a jelly doughnut again!”
—Do Programmers Need Seat Belts?, by Richard P. Gabriel
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Saturday 17th, 16:52
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- “Besides encouraging pornographic programming, giving a special interpretation
to the address 0 has caused difficulties in all subsequent implementations.”
—John McCarthy, History of Lisp (the PS version is better)
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Wednesday 21st, 11:46
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- “'Tis my DDT,” I muttered, “feeping on my console's bell:
Once it feeped, and now is still.”
—The Great Quux, The HACTRN, from Random Poetry and Other Losses
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Wednesday 28th, 13:58
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- “yylex: token 271,” muttered
psql, doubt edging the
suspicion in his voice. But when he saw that I was not deceiving him, he cried
“INSERT 0 4,” and from that moment we were committed.
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Wednesday 28th, 15:28
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- Lyrics to the (live) Sailor Moon song. I thought aibiimu was ‘love-beam’
(ai means love) but apparently it's ‘eyebeam’. Not cheesy enough!
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Thursday 29th, 11:44
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- You would think our printer was designed to eat data, whir its motors, and sit
there looking smug. It's only an aberation when it spits out bits of paper
with markings on.
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Thursday 29th, 15:27
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- Wow, people are actually using my little Text::VimColor Perl module:
AxKit plugin by Michael A. Nachbaur; Blosxom plugin by Byron Ellacott;
Python version by Oliver Graf. Cool :-)
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Thursday 29th, 23:37
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- “In the land with horses born with eagle wings, and honey bees have lost their
stings, there's singing forever... oooh, yeah.”
—Queen, My Fairy King. Ah, They don't write them like that anymore.
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