July 2008
9 posts
“I’m watching TV with my family. A particularly insipid commercial comes...”
– I Was A Mad Man
I love the inverse square law
Taking my headphone amplifier, which was two feet from my iPhone cradle, and moving it to another spot four feet from my phone has reduced the GSM interference in my headphones from “intolerable” to “inaudible”. Which is great, because there’s a paint crew scraping my house prepping it for new paint, and I happen to be working from home this week on a critical...
Apple just gave out my Apple ID password because... →
Giving me second thoughts about signing up for MobileMe.
“99% of the time operating system bugs are actually bugs in your program, and the...”
– Call Me Fishmeal.: Pimp My Code, Part 15: The Greatest Bug of All. Good story.
Tom Waits on his cherished albums of all time →
“During the Russian revolution, the mathematical physicist Igor Tamm was seized...”
– Taylor Series—a matter of life or death (via 3QD)
“Ditz is a simple, light-weight distributed issue tracker designed to work with...”
– Ditz. Beautiful! Ditz, where have you been all my life?
“wtop is like “top” for your webserver. How many searches or signups...”
– wtop—even better than apachetop 