DC Snacks Resurrects the Dream of Kozmo.com
We had some friends over the other night (incidentally, the same night the prodigal recycle bin returned), and Hedda mentioned the relatively new DC Snacks, ...
TortoiseSVN OPENSSL_Uplink Error
I upgraded to version 1.3.3.6219 of TortoiseSVN this afternoon. Shortly thereafter, any repository operations ended with a nasty little message box.
See A Suspicious Bag on the Metro? Just Throw It Away
DCist is reporting on a new advertising campaign on the Metro that encourages riders to be ever vigilant for abandoned bags and suspicious circumstances. The...
Kitten Captcha Needs to be Mashed With Flickr
I hate comment spam. I hate captchas only slightly less. Since optical character recognition is continually improving, captchas become ever more inscrutable ...
Time Is Relative, and the Scale Is Arbitrary
I’ve beeing seeing emails and posts - and hell, I think I might have even seen some skywriting - about this sequential date thing.
Published vs. Public
I’m really like the idea of separating published interfaces from public interfaces. Apparently, a JSR has been started to add an idea like this to Java. In t...
The Prodigal Recycle Bin
As Hedda mentioned, we had a big party on Saturday night. There was a lot of carnage at this party, including a lit candle getting knocked off its perch, spe...