Old people are consistently surprised when they hear someone’s age (“I can’t believe you are ten already! I can still remember when you were born!”.) They also express surprise when they realize how long ago it’s been since they have done something (“Hmm, now that I think about it, I haven’t bowled in [...]
Dec 21 09
Meyers-Briggs – ENTP
When I heard GeoCities pages were being squashed, I breathed a sigh of relief. Thankfully, no more terrible banner ads, outdated content, and similar tripe.
But then I thought to myself that there was one page that I looked at recently that was actually pretty good. It was a page detailing the Meyers-Briggs type [...]
Dec 15 09
My Blog Is Under Siege
I have been interested in seeing how well my blog would do under heavy load. In the back of my mind I was worried about an article getting really popular and taking my blog down, so I decided to see how much load my server could take before it happened. Obviously being too [...]
Oct 1 09
Interesting Links, Nascent Thoughts
Here are some threads that I’ve been reading or interested in from the last year or so. I typically find links tweet-worthy, not blog-worthy unless I have significant original thoughts to contribute. If you don’t think one link is valuable, the next one will likely be better. Many of these won’t be [...]
Sep 28 09
git svn
I recently had a chance to use the Git interface to Subversion (git-svn), and it’s the best way that I’ve found to work with Subversion (SVN). Using git-svn is better than using plain SVN. The primary reasons I feel this way are that it provides a convenient staging environment and superior local branching [...]
Sep 25 09
Writing and Revision Control
I have been doing a lot of writing lately and was interested in automatic versioning so I could see the results of writing over time and how things change. I think that it would be really interesting to see a visualization of a book being written from scratch. Normally you only see the [...]
Sep 24 09
Annual Navel Gazing
Well, it’s been a year since I started this blog, and I have been pleasantly surprised by the personal changes that I have seen, as well as other people’s responses to my writing.
I appreciated feedback that people gave me over the course of the year, whether through comments or discussions. This helped me realize [...]
