Mandolin Symposium 2005
I went to an incredible event last year, if you happen to be a mandolin player: the Mandolin Symposium. They get many of the best players in the world together with about 300 other symposium students and do in-depth classes all week. I had a blast, and wish I could go back this year (but […]
Strange bedfellows?
I didn’t think I’d have the pleasure of seeing this for a while yet, but I’m pleased nonetheless: Microsoft donates US$25,000 to Creative Commons. Analysis is left as an exercise to the reader.
You’ll note that this blog is one of millions and millions of online works that are provided under a Creative Commons license. There’s […]
See, I told you so…
Joel on Java
A practical testing tip: Bug Bash!
Do you ever wish your product team had more dedicated test time? Do you try to ship products with insufficient testing? Do you feel that your dev team is disconnected from QA?
Here’s a practical software testing tip, just in time for the new year. My team at Positive Networks has been doing regularly-scheduled Bug Bash […]
Adi Oltean on atomic file writes
Adi Oltean has an article up on the issues surrounding atomic file writes. Worth a read if you’re into that sort of thing.
100 million saved lives?
Scott Adams poses a fascinating question over at the Dilbert Blog: who is holier, Mother Theresa or Bill Gates? He’s not kidding, and it’s an interesting question, once you quit equivocating on the meaning of “holy.”
I realize that it’s not cool to like Bill, and I have serious political differences with him on a few […]
Wordpress 2.0 final
I’ve applied the 2.0 release version of Wordpress to my server. Hopefully yesterday’s fun will not recur. There was a distressing number of important-looking changes between -rc3 and final…
iTunes upgrade
News to me: iTunes ships the CD booklet with full album purchases. It opens up in Preview / Acrobat Reader / whatever you use for PDF. Yet another reason to buy CDs evaporates into thin air.
I just bought Hilary Hahn’s latest album, which includes recordings of several Mozart violin sonatas. It’s Mozart’s 250th birthday this […]
Giving technology for Christmas
I have a nasty habit of giving technology gifts to people for Christmas. It sometimes winds up taking a nontrivial amount of time just to get the recipient off the ground and using the gift. It usually pays off, in the sense that the recipients tend to wind up learning enough to use the gift […]
Wordpress weirdness
I upgraded to the 2.0 release candidate of Wordpress, and (unrelated?) my apache mysteriously stopped handling Wordpress requests over the weekend. No indications in error logs as to why.
Looks like I’m going to have to keep a closer eye on it.