Not yet. But I’m officially leaving the country in less than 48 hours. Damn. Remind me, the next time I travel outside the US for the first time, to pick a location where I at least know a little of the local language.
Monthly Archives: February 2005
vector and ostream
February 17, 2005 – 6:19 pm
Dave Dribin has a puzzler about being able to cout << vector << endl; at his web page. As I’ve been reading about this kind of stuff recently, I have a sample explanation and also, for fun, an explanation of why it’s impossible to do this correctly after the jump…
Normalizing the Scoreboard, Part I
February 16, 2005 – 5:36 pm
Right now, the scoreboard is simply a table: name, employer, start, end, reasonleft. The latter two can be null. the first three shouldn’t be.
On top of that, there’s a huge ass view definition that creates all the accessory fields. Score, tenure, milliroma, etc.
Now, the view is ok if a little unwieldy. […]
Greylisting
February 7, 2005 – 7:23 pm
The mailserver where @meat.net gets mail recently implemented greylisting. As a result, my spamload has dropped dramatically. How much? So much that one of the other people who still uses his @meat.net address contacted me via IM today to wonder where his stripper spam had gone.
I ran some stats:
Date
Local spam
All spam
Jan 23
289
291
Jan […]
travel
February 4, 2005 – 1:12 pm
It’s not quite one night in Bangkok, but I’ll be spending two weeks in Shenzhen, China in March.
Dean For DNC
February 2, 2005 – 11:20 am
I’ve once again failed to endorse Howard Dean in timely fashion. However, I’m glad to see Howard is probably going to be DNC chair. I think Paul Waldmann basically sums it up for me:
The Democrats’ problem isn’t that Americans think they’re too liberal. The Democrats’ problem is that Americans think they don’t have […]
