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8 Mar 2013When I traveled to London last year, I stayed in the Premier Inn at London County Hall. It was a great hotel in a great location. But I just got this email from them: I don’t think they understand how email works. Giving me advance notice to opt out of spam I didn’t ask for [...]
When I traveled to Europe and back, I switched through timezones a lot. I went from Boston to London. When in London, Boston switched off of DST. Then I moved from London to Brno, forward another hour. Then back to London, then back to Boston. Not wanting to lug my heavy Thinkpad around, I brought [...]
Since people have been asking, I thought I’d share a bit about my journey to the Czech Republic. The Aeolus Project (what I do at work) is having a meeting here, as a substantial number of my colleagues work here. I haven’t travelled internationally much. Back in 2007, I visited Mmofra Trom in Ghana. The [...]
I think the best analogy for modern-day politics is sports teams. I root for the Red Sox, because they’re my local team. Yankees suck! This is foolish, of course. The Yankees are a great team. They’re not an enemy, but friendly competition. Politics today are the same way. Democrats hate Republicans, and Republicans think Democrats [...]
Lately a lot of my work as a web developer has been way at the back-end, and, for whatever reason, it tends to focus heavily on third parties. I spent a while fixing a bizarre intermittent error with our credit card processor, moved on to connecting with Facebook, and am now working on a major [...]
I’ve mentioned before about how the sync_binlog setting in MySQL can be especially slow on ext3. Of course, I wasn’t the first to discover this; the MySQL Performance Blog mentioned it months ago. I was reading through some of the slides I mentioned in my last post, and remembered that I’d left sync_binlog off on [...]
We were talking quite some time ago at college about how gay marriage had been legal in Massachusetts for a few years. Despite all the hubbub about it being the end of the world–or the greatest thing since sliced bread–we came to the conclusion that it was a complete non-issue. None of us knew anyone [...]
After reading about a series of pirate attacks last year—back then an almost laughably bizarre occurrence—I became interested in the concept of modern piracy, something I, like many average citizens, was unaware still went on. I picked up a copy of John Burnett’s Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas after hearing [...]
Apparently, a company wrote an application for the iPhone called Baby Shaker. It depicts a crying baby, and you vigorously shake the iPhone to make it stop, at which point its eyes are replaced by X’s. Apple pulled the application from its store and apologized, saying, “This app is deeply offensive and should not have [...]
Thinking about a $22,000 lens got me thinking about “real” cameras a bit more. And it occurred to me that Canon is in kind of a weird spot right now. Their flagship camera has always been the EOS-1. With digital it was the 1D, which was followed by a 1Ds. The s designates that it’s [...]