June 30, 2009Jun 30, 200906/30/09Time for the semi-annual link clearance.
How to rotate your Samsung Syncmaster 245BW into portrait mode.
Watching the global cycle of airline traffic through the day. [via]
Glowing Cities Under a Nighttime Sky, a time-lapse video shot out the window of a commercial airline.
June 30, 2009Jun 30, 200906/30/09I ran across an old document that contained a phrase I hadn’t heard before:
The Plan for the Plan for the XYZ Team
Summary
XYZ is at ZBB and we are now at a recall class only bug bar until RTM.
June 29, 2009Jun 29, 200906/29/09Some time ago, I was visiting a family with small children, and I found the two-year-old middle child with a marker in her hand suspiciously close to some fresh marks on the living room couch. The following conversation ensued:
“Who drew on the couch?”
June 29, 2009Jun 29, 200906/29/09Commenter Matthew Chaboud asks if there’s an easy way to consume all the virtual address space below 4GB, short of, well, actually allocating it. “It seems like there should be a cleaner way to do this.”
If you want to consume all the virtual address space,
June 26, 2009Jun 26, 200906/26/09Before field-testing his Heelys for a report in Slate, John Swansburg reads the legal disclaimer and declines it.
June 26, 2009Jun 26, 200906/26/09The thread that gets the DLL_PROCESS_DETACH notification is not necessarily the one that got the DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH notification. This is obvious if you think about it, because the thread that got the DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH notification might not even exist any longer when the DLL is unloaded.
June 25, 2009Jun 25, 200906/25/09Anything in a McDonald’s wrapper tastes better, according to children ages 3 to 5. Even something like carrots taste better if you put them in a McDonald’s wrapper or cup.
June 25, 2009Jun 25, 200906/25/09I will occasionally note that users don’t read error messages;
they just click Cancel.
And the phenomenon isn’t just restricted to naïve users.
Even programmers ignore error messages.
All they see is “Blah blah blah an error occurred.”
For example, there’s this message that appeared
on a peer-to-peer discussion group:
I tried to submit an update to our database and I got this error.
June 24, 2009Jun 24, 200906/24/09The people who run this site think they have a handle on the trackback spam attack that raged for three and a half weeks. All the bad IP addresses have been blocked, and hopefully we didn’t lose any babies with the bathwater.
June 24, 2009Jun 24, 200906/24/09Everybody has probably heard about some project where management decided to motivate testers and programmers by rewarding testers for finding bugs and programmers for fixing them. In the absence of high ethical standards, this can devolve into the situation known to Dilbert fans as I’m gonna write me a new minivan.
