Fairly Realistic

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Google TV, originally uploaded by superic.

Google Video now features full length television shows — well, one at least! You can watch online the pilot episode of Everybody Hates Chris for free. Is this […]

There are a few applications that I use every single day at work. In fact, it’s unusual that all of these are not open at the same time.

GTalk - This is how we communicate at work
Desktop Search - This is how I find all of the things that I lose or refuse to organize
Firefox - […]

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Open Wireless Networks, originally uploaded by superic.

I spent the morning at Canal Town Coffee on Main Street in Pittsford. They do not have wireless available at the coffee shop yet but there are […]

I came accross this Handy Latin Phrases site during a search for something on Google. It made me laugh — it’s well worth a read!

I stumbled upon a funny comic called Bug Bash the other day. It’s some very quality nerd humor and I highly recommend checking it out.

I saw this article on Googlebombing on the Google blog the other day and found it quite amusing. Now, I can’t resist linking the words failure and miserable failure. I do think that Google made the right decision in not messing with the generated results of their search. If the internet determines that “failure” and […]

I wonder if my blog would quality for Christian Web Hosting?
Won’t you lose a lot of business with such content policies?
Yes, we are sure that there is a huge section of the hosting market that we will lose out on. But, we believe that doing God’s work is far more important than making a buck.
It […]

Write In C
(sung to The Beatles “Let it Be”)
When I find my code in tons of trouble,
Friends and colleagues come to me,
Speaking words of wisdom:
“Write in C.”
As the deadline fast approaches,
And bugs are all that I can see,
Somewhere, someone whispers”
“Write in C.”
Write in C, write in C,
Write in C, write in C.
LISP is dead and […]

Oh, Kansas…
The creationists’ fondness for “gaps” in the fossil record is a metaphor for their love of gaps in knowledge generally. Gaps, by default, are filled by God. You don’t know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don’t understand how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesis a bafflingly complex process? […]

I’ve been doing a lot of reading about Visual Source Safe and other source control systems this past week. Earlier today, I stumbled across these two articles damning VSS to hell. After reading these and a plethora of other horror stories about VSS… we won’t be implementing it at work.
1. Visual SourceSafe Version Control: Unsafe […]