Month: August 2005

I’m off work waiting for a service tech from GE to come and take a look at my microwave. I love that the best they can do for scheduling is “between 1pm and 5pm”. I guess that way they avoid nailing themselves down and then pissing off a customer by being a little bit late.…

Many of you have heard me whine about how ITS assigned me the e-mail address “nward2” at school, even though “nward1” had graduated and the e-mail was no longer used. I know at least a few of my friends and family sent mail to that non-existent address over my four years at Swat. However, I…

Reason #4,192 Why I Hate Windows strcmp (“stir-comp”): string comparison _stricmp (“stree-comp”): lowercase string comparison, locale-dependent _strcmpi (“stir-compy”): equivalent to _stricmp, present for backwards compatibility _wcsicmp (“wicksie-comp”): wide-character version of _stricmp wcscmp (“wicks-comp”): wide-character version of strcmp _mbsicmp (“mibsie-comp”): multibyte-character version of _stricmp _mbscmp (“mibs-comp”): multibyte-character version of strcmp Naming inconsistencies! Inscrutable abbreviations! ALSJKFHASLJDFHASDLH Reason…

I spent today exploring the dataflow through the web application, web services, and supporting Perl scripts and other executables. At this point, I’ve gotten through a few of the rendered ASP.NET pages, and down into the actual linguistic bits that I don’t really understand. I have almost 10 pages of notes, most of which is…

The myriad collection of wires, chips, and fiberoptics between my computer and an arbitrary server on the Internet may be plagued by problems that appear to be Verizon’s fault, but one thing in my apartment works beautifully. I inherited a 50-year-old (probably more) Hamilton-Beach commercial grade malt mixer from my grandmother via my parents. Supposedly…

With over two weeks without t3h 1nt4rw3b, I’ve accumulated just a wee bit of e-mail. Here are some quick stats: SWIL Mailing lists: 75 G-mail threads (probably many more messages) SCCS Staff: 217 messages SCCS account: 78 personal messages In other words, I’ll be here a while. Unfortunately, I doubt I’ll be able to reply…

ARGGGGGGGGRRAESHFDSFHasdklcnasdlkjfnalscvjknqacwo;eicna;sdlnfal;sdkjcn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!!!!!!!!eleven!!!!!!!!!one!!!!!!!!!!! That little display doesn’t even come close to the level of insanity I am experiencing right now. Clearly internet withdrawal only gets worse the longer I go without. I’m getting a hit right now courtesy of Starbucks and T-Mobile, and it’s only costing me $10/day! I suppose I should update my DSL situation. It…

The BBN campus in Cambridge is actually a set of interconnected warehouses, plus a newer (relatively) office building built on the former site of a laundromat once located on Concord Avenue. This does not include their sites in Mystic, CT or Arlington, VA. The buildings are all interconnected, either abutting directly or with enclosed walkways…

I probably should have been keeping up to date even while I’ve been offline; I certainly had the time, given how much assorted Star Trek I’ve watched in the last 10 days. My internet setup has been extremely slow. I ordered Speakeasy DSL, because they have lots of great features, such as providing static IP…