Thursday, March 29, 2007

My house






A tornado hit my house yesterday. This is a picture of the aftermath.
JUST KIDDING. This picture was taken at Universal Studios.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Apparently I'm not the only one having this problem.

The reboot went fine till after it was done uncompressing the kernel. Then it froze! Ouch.

Installing Ubuntu Dapper on Parallels running on Tiger

This sucks

Prominent blogger Kathy Sierra has called on the blogosphere to combat the culture of abuse online.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Blog death threats spark debate

Ut oh... Steph, you better clean up your myspace profile

Employers are increasingly checking out online personal information about candidates when making recruitment decisions.

Want a job? Clean up your Web act | CNET News.com

Monday, March 26, 2007

Windows based software?

For fast-food help, call in the robots | CNET News.com
I have visions of chaos while low wage labor scurry about trying to figure out why they are staring at a blue screen of death. Do make make more fries now or should I flip the burger?

I want Sandy!

iwantsandy
I already use Stikkit. I think it's great, but what if I wanted my assistant to be blonde? Heh. I'm not sure how easy it will be to change the habits of non-tech people that just expect this application to work. I had to spend some time to read about how the parser works and what syntax it is expecting you to use. I'm wondering if it will be more lenient with iwantsandy. We'll find out in April.

feckless

adjective

  1. not fit to assume responsibility

  2. generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account" [syn: inept]


Source: http://www.word.sc/feckless

Scottish Bridie


Scottish Bridie
Originally uploaded by califrayray.

I had this on Sunday [not my picture].

"get over it"

When contacted by BA about the complaint, Trinder says he was told he would not be compensated and should “get over” the incident.

BA sat corpse in first class -News-UK-TimesOnline

I guess I won't be good as a day trader.

Robert Deel, who operates an online trading school from Murrieta, California, says the worst day traders are engineers, doctors, lawyers, dentists, economists, computer programmers, accountants and entrepreneurs. Mr. Deel says psychological characteristics common to these successful individuals tend to hamstring them as day traders.

CareerJournal | Financial Services/Insurance -- Salary Data and Hiring Trends

Design Eye for the Code Guy

A passion for aesthetics can mean the difference between code that others enjoy working on vs. code that's stressful to look at.

Creating Passionate Users: Code like a girl

Monday, March 12, 2007

Man, it sure as hell would take more than just spooning for me to ejaculate!

Near the end of the flight, the FBI said Gonzalez sat next to the woman as she was trying to sleep. He touched her, which she described as spooning, lifted her shirt and then got up and left. Court documents said she felt a warm fluid on her back, clothes and seat after he walked away. She told the officers he had ejaculated on her.

wcco.com - Off-Duty NWA Worker Charged With Assault On Flight

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Merit Badge Effect

"The other benefit of the logbook is the Merit Badge Effect. People seem to have a chipmunk-like hoarding instinct, whereby once they start collecting something, whether it be Scout merit badges, bottle caps, or hours worked on a thesis, they want more and more. The secret is to turn your hours into a collection. It sounds silly, but it may work for you. After you've been collecting hours for a few days, you'll start thinking, 'I earned ten hours yesterday. Wonder if i can get eleven today?'" - Getting What You Came For, RL Peters.

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Ummm.. yeah. I think I need one of these.

10 Ergonomic Ways to Enhance Your Office Space - 1. ErgoPod 500


Yes, I want to worry about the freak'n monitor falling on top of my head while I'm surfing the web.

Condom applicator

I didn't know it was that difficult to put on a condom. How about a toilet paper applicator that makes wiping your ass easier?

dezeen » Blog Archive » Condom device wins Most Beautiful award

Sunday, March 04, 2007

Efficient Algorithm for Training Neural Networks with one Hidden Layer

The LM algorithm is now considered as the most efficient[6]. It
combines the speed of the Newton algorithm with the
stability of the steepest decent method.

Friday, March 02, 2007

Automatic initialization

The database initialization step is not absolutely necessary. For instance, in the HSQL-based examples early in the book, we configure Seam to automatically create table schema based on the entity bean annotations (see last section in this chapter). We then place an import.sql file in the EJB3 JAR file. The SQL INSERT statements in the import.sql file are automatically executed when the application is deployed.

Safari Bookshelf - 013241273X - JBoss Seam: Simplicity and Power Beyond Java EE 5.0

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Captcha!

JCAPTCHA, for Java Completely Automated Public Test to tell Computers and Humans ApartThe open source java framework for captcha definition and integration

JCaptcha - jcaptcha

Chewie and some person I don't know.


me and chewie
Originally uploaded by bonniegrrl.

Oops. I spelled it Chewy in a previous post.
At least I didn't spell: Chuy. What a childhood friend prefered to be called, even though his name was Jesus. Yes, he was Latino.