I bought a Palm Zire at Fry’s Electronics last night. It was on sale for $89. I lost my trusty old Palm V in November and have been miserable without it for the past 6 weeks. One of the reasons it took me so long to get a replacement was that I saw it as […]
I’m in the SF Bay Area this week for work and I’m really busy. I don’t even have time to write anything amusing for my blog. Now that I’m officially a pointy-haired (in the Dilbert sense) manager-type, there are lots of meetings. Some intersting new projects are on the plate for the coming year. Speaking […]
I have started keeping a separate blog for my Hebcal Interactive Jewish Calendar Tools website.
I’ve got a 30-second improvement to the Main Index template for MovableType. In the Recent Entries section on the right-hand column, I have added HTML title=”…” attibutes so you can get a sneak preview of the content before you click. I simply changed this: <a href=”<$MTEntryPermalink$>”><$MTEntryTitle$></a><br /> to this: <a title=”[<$MTEntryDate format=”%x”$>] <$MTEntryExcerpt$>” href=”<$MTEntryPermalink$>”><$MTEntryTitle$></a><br /> […]
Yahoo! News: PETA Launching Boycott of KFC (AP) – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said Monday it is launching a boycott against KFC because of alleged animal-rights abuses by the chain of fried-chicken restaurants. Remember that jingle? “Kentucky Fried Chicken: we do chicken right!”
This makes it official. Today is the first day of the Winter 2003 quarter at UCLA, and I’m not enrolled in any classes. My short career as a part-time graduate student has come to an end. I enrolled in the MSCS program at UCLA last year in part because I was hoping to round out […]
I finally finished reading Fred Brooks’ The Mythical Man-Month this past week as I was recovering from a nasty chest cold. Even though the book is now 25 years old, it’s still got some fantastic insight on why software projects are perennially late, over budget, and full of bugs. Still on my software engineering kick, […]
Someone at work volunteered to port and maintain our proprietary package-management tool to Solaris. All twelve thousand uncommented lines of it. Good luck. I’m sure someone is going to notice, and they’ll want to spend the next 3 months of their time doing a Linux port, too. It seems to me like it would be […]