So I’m sitting at the coffee shop, up since 4 AM, more than a little sleep deprived working on finishing my software engineering presentation for this morning. And I’m listening to the Muriel’s Wedding soundtrack, and I have the uncontrollable urge to kick back my chair and do the swinging arm dance to ABBA’s Waterloo. [...]
So I saw two movies over the past two days, both “bio-pics” and both quite good in their own way. It seems that Ray is what biographical films get compared to of late, probably due to Foxx’s Oscar win. I haven’t seen Ray, so I can’t make that comparison. What I can [...]
[The first in a series of posts to help me (and hopefully others) remember how to get Zope running behind Squid.]
In a world where lots and lots of tools have been written to analyze Apache httpd logs, it’s a little annoying we can’t use the same tools for Squid, especially if we’re using it to [...]
Joel relates an interesting way to look at the big boys of tech:
A very senior Microsoft developer who moved to Google told me that Google works and thinks at a higher level of abstraction than Microsoft. “Google uses Bayesian filtering the way Microsoft uses the if statement,” he said. That’s true. Google also uses full-text-search-of-the-entire-Internet [...]
