Entries from February 2006

Freaky

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

Why does it seem that Jorge Cham has been spying on me (again)?

Better than Random

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

In the midst of anger and frustration, I may have posted hastily yesterday since I managed to get a section of my algorithm to produce some encouraging results last night. Well, at least it’s now less random than a Mersenne Twister! Unfortunately, proving that it works it just as frustrating/impossible as yesterday.

Fuck it

Monday, February 20th, 2006

It doesn’t fucking work. I’m not sure it ever can fucking work. I seriously fucking doubt I can make it fucking work. And, if by some fucking miracle it does work, I’ve got no fucking way of proving it work. Listening to U2′s Beautiful Day is just the perfect fucking irony to round off the [...]

Why

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

This cartoon could have been written about me. It’d be funnier if it wasn’t true.

3G

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

I’m no fan of 3G networks but I received a free Vodafone 3G datacard from Dabs the other week (because I bought my laptop from them last year) so I thought I’d see if it works. Apparently it does, and quite nicely. It might be useful in some life-or-death, I must get online situation. Now [...]

Dreamhost… again

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

I know I’ve blogged before about how good Dreamhost are, but today they’ve just astounded me again. My brother asked me to host a 150MB file for him but said I could delete it after a few days to save space. I checked my disk space allowance: 22GB! And, that’s growing by 160MB/week. And, they’ve [...]

Abstract Abstractions and Factory Factories

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

If you’ve ever used, played with or just heard about a Java web app, then this post will mean something to you. It’s just going to sound insane to anyone else. Now pass me the general-purpose tool-building factory factory factory, I’ve got something to build.