Tuesday, May 9, 2006
The monitor attached to my Mac mini went up in smoke yesterday, leaving me unable to use that sweet machine. Going back to Windows for a while is giving me something akin to a withdrawal syndrome. No joke.Tags: chaff
Monday, May 1, 2006
We all know there are youthful prodigies in mathematics. Indeed, by the age of 30, most true mathematicians are over the hill. If they haven’t made their bones by then, they almost certainly never will.
There are near-infant prodigies in music. (At the age of two, so the story goes, little Mozart would toddle downstairs in the middle of the night and play an unresolved chord on the harpsichord, knowing that his father would have to get out of bed and come downstairs to resolve it.)
There are artistic prodigies such as Picasso. It’s reported that Andrew Wyeth was so proficient in drawing with charcoal when he was about seven that his instructor, his father N.C., banned him from drawing with it for at least a year so he wouldn’t fall behind in learning his skills with other media.
There are no novelist prodigies. None. Nada. Zero. Zip. Zilch.
This is an absolute must read for all writers.
Tags: language • literature
Twitter: Performing surgery to get Kannel to install on OSX. Every other program seems to choke on a nonstandard MySQL location ala Macports. 5 days ago
Sunday, May 28, 2006
From Memepunks, a quote by Alan Turing:
“In attempting to construct such machines we should not be irreverently usurping His power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children. Rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates.”
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
I have one small suggestion for increasing wireless reception and stability for wireless routers: upgrade firmware. I’ve had a D-link DI-624+ for a while now and my wireless connection had intermittent faliures. Upgraded my firmware, and I not only have a stable signal, but increased speeds, more features, etc. 
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Rohypnol (for people spamming me with emails about it) is a date-rape drug, but it cannot cause permanent sterilization. Gosh, please think about stuff that you forward!
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Dech from Fintan Darragh. I love this design. Clean, readable and trendy.
Impostor by Philip K. Dick. Really nice short story.
It’s high time I uploaded a cool Mac screenshot, so here it is! That’s my Mac mini running Win XP in the background with native Intel virtualization. The speed is almost as good as the real thing As soon as I get some time, I’ll post a good set of articles both here and over at Sig9 on how to get a nice development environment for MAMP/RoR/Java etc. on the Mac.
Monday, May 1, 2006
Fastblood is back, on the latest Symfony release and now with spanking new communities.
Wow!