Monthly Archives: December 2004

Tsunami

The tsunami stuff is absolutely overwhelming already, now comes word it could still be 3-4 times worse than we already thought.
“Indonesia Needs Help, Death Toll Expected To Exceed 400,000.”
The mind boggles.

Make Firefox Fly

This is awesome..
Check commenters for other tips as well.

What a fuck

What a fuck.
And I just started listening, too. Oh well, thus ends my fascination with talk radio.
Jay, if you get a new gig, give us a shout will ya?

Creativity and Working Conditions

The computer industry, especially the programming profession, has long had (at least internally) a reputation as one of the most creativity-centered disciplines of anything that’s called “engineering” (though what’s called software engineering usually isn’t). This is a very interesting study, though, which FastCompany (something I normally eschew) is reporting — the factors behind creativity […]

SSH and Proxies

While I’m commenting on interesting stuff on Dave Dribin’s blog, let me point out a couple things about his post on SSH proxies.
The problem with this technique is DNS. One, it becomes possible to figure out which sites you’re talking to by snooping your DNS traffic. Two, if you’re tunnelling into a site […]

C++ and implicit constructors

Nope, Dave, C++ calls Super() in the following code:

class Super{ public: Super() { cout