Techiness

I'll clump web design talk and gadget talk here, I guess.

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    Sometimes…

    Sometimes it’s not stupidity, or ignorance, or shortness of time, or laziness, or lack of energy, or apathy, or antipathy, or a “lack of interpersonal skills”, or immaturity, or incompetence, or arrogance, or any of those other things that makes a team project fail. Sometimes you just overestimate the ability of your teammates to work independently. Sometimes it’s just that moment when you realize that you have 6 days and that the other members of you team simply do not have… it. That thing that enables someone to be able to sit and code for hours and produce something that works and compiles and comes close to doing what it…

  • On Life and Love

    Fascinating.

    All sound exiting my laptop exits slightly slower (and at a lower tone, like a Doppler shift) than it should. At first I thought it was the dublab stream on the blitz, but it sounds odd in any application or with any file type. So I shall be submitting my laptop to my own place of employment tomorrow later for a replacement sound card, methinks. <edit>Or not. The problem has ceased…</edit> I think I shall spend Saturday night (my only non-statically allocated time this weekend) blogging, reading blogs/sites, and writing e-mails to make up for my lack of real human contact and updates since last Sunday. This week was long…

  • On Life and Love

    Wa-pow, biatch!

    I’d like to preface this by saying that Markov chains are awesomely cool entities. I’ll also say that I found the opportunity to program them to be fascinating and fun. I’ll even toss in a (*Grin*) for the grade the testing script gave me. Not perfect, but we’re definitely entering “time sink” area, and I can’t afford that this week. Now I’m going to bitch about how many miniscule details fucked that shit up every step of the way. Holy shit I have lost too much sleep for a project that was supposed to be review. And since I bombed the first 40% of the project, the best I can…

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    Moving towards integration–a done list and a to-do list.

    I want my operating systems to like one another. I want my Thunderbirds to be just as sexy and useful in Windows as in Linux. No mismatched signatures, profiles, accounts, or preferences. I want Trillian to be chirpy, sleek, and transparent. I want CenterICQ to be silent, simple, and easy to ignore. I want XP’s bootloader to manage the operating systems and LILO to manage my kernels. I don’t want to be pissed when I have to boot into Windows to do Thorn work, fit an equation to a trendline in Excel, catch a glimpse of a layout in Internet Explorer, or do work on SQL Server. I don’t want…