January 2010
20 posts
A while back, I blogged about Visual C++ having retarded registration.
And the solution back then was pretty simple. One of my friends had a Windows machine running, and he registered it for me, since apparently Parallels and Safari/Chrome/Chromium/K-Meleon/Internet Explorer were a bad combination.
I thought there’d be one registration for all Visual Studio Express-based products. I was...
Adobe Reminds Us Flash Isn’t Out of the iPad Game →
The first question my dad and brother asked me when I told them in a reality distortion field-induced daze about the iPad was “Is Flash running on it?”
And I said, “Fuck no, don’t let it get anywhere near the iPad.”
Then later on, I got an IM telling me I was a fool to consider buying the iPad because “IT DOESN’T EVEN DO FLASH”.
News...
Tablet Eve Predictions
I had an epiphany.
Apple can’t unveil a new tablet themselves tomorrow. And with news from Verizon earlier today that tomorrow will be a “big day”, I think I’ve nailed the predictions. And you guys are all way fucking wrong.
Go back a couple years to when rumors were building up that Apple was working on a cell phone, and it’d be really cool. What came out of that? You’d be tempted to say the...
The Monoculture and its Discontents. Part 1: Whose... →
humblefool makes some cultural observation, and is spot on. Really well-written. Can’t wait for part 2.
Meta: I aspire to some day be as good a writer as David is. Is that goal out of reach? Most definitely, but only time will tell.
I was reading the instructions to an IRS form earlier and noticed this gem:
The time needed to complete and file this form will vary depending on individual circumstances. The estimated average time is:
Recordkeeping, 5 hr., 58 min.;
Learning about the law or the form, 3 hr., 46 min.;
Preparing and sending the form to IRS, 4 hr., 2 min.
For one form. Geez.
To the Boys of SB0118
In a few hours, I’ll be on the 21 line, bound for Les Rivières, heading towards the first class of the semester. The semester I will spend in the second group, the one very few of my friends are in. The semester I will spend learning Visual Basic.NET and Oracle Form Builder. The semester I will spend being bored out of my mind.
Guys in the first group, you were a blast to be around last semester....
Tech Support Guidelines, Most Of Which I Have...
If you have an issue, how about you actually email it in instead of whining that something doesn’t work on Twitter, and never actually specifying what it is.
You can pretty much tell who’s running Rock Extensions by checking if the address a support email is sent from ends with @aol.com. No one will support you if you have Rock Extensions installed; I am no different.
Service...
Is a man not entitled to a programming language...
No, says the man in Denmark, you must use C++. No, says the man in Redmond, you must use Visual Basic. No, says the man in Santa Clara, you must use Java.
I chose to reject these answers.
Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose…
Objective-C.
deltamualpha:
So, M$ and HP announce a tablet, and nobody cares?
Pretty much.
And to think, Microsoft could have made the much-rumored, pretty much confirmed Apple tablet look like a “me too” product with Courier, an awesome prototype for a tablet/e-reader thing they unveiled sometime last September. But no, they didn’t show that, did they?
They showed a fucking portable...
complutense.org >> subway maps →
Being a transit nerd, these maps are really really well-made and I dig them. Somewhat tempted to make one for the STTR transit system out here.