Another Day In The Code Mines

I'm still working on my "why threads are bad" rant, but in the meantime, here's a joke with a Parrot in it... One day, a C...

Today, I'm going to write a bit about programming. But first, a short detour into the wonderful world of USENET, and the adaptability of...

Continuing the "Wildlife Adventures in Suburbia" theme from the last post... As I was driving up to my house Sunday evening, I not...

On Sunday, Yvette and I were rearranging stuff in the garage in preparation for the roofing guys to come in and tear the roof off way too ea...

If you're running Mac OS X, and you've installed XCode, try this: open up a Terminal window, and type ps -x |grep -i python Do you s...

Last night, walking back to work from dinner, I happened to pass by the Scientology building in downtown Mountain View. As I passed by, I st...

I'll need to add a couple of pictures to this post to illustrate, but I just received a lens I purchased on eBay. It's a well-used, ...

From an email I sent to a friend. The question at issue revolves around me getting my first digital camera with interchangeable lenses (a Ni...

Okay, so I haven't been updating this as often as I'd like. I guess that's not too surprising, given my "issues" with ...

I've decided that I need to exercise my coding muscles a bit more. I've been doing little tiny programs as part of my day job as a s...

Heh, just kidding. But at least with my own blog, I'll always get the first (and last) word on whatever discussion I'm in. -Mark