Today I discovered and took Andy Rutledge’s little designer quiz. I got only two questions wrong, and one of them I knew the answer but got wrong on purpose (triangles suck!). But this doesn’t mean I’m a designer. It simply means that I’ve been immersed in design ideas for the past year. If I had […]
Today was the funeral for a co-worker. He was a year younger than me, with an infant son and two very sick parents. A terrible tragedy, he was cut down by an undetected and unexpected illness with only a week or two of warning.
The pastor at the funeral service exploited the tragedy to the maximum […]
Congratulations to China for the launch of Chang’e, named after the tragic princess who flew to the moon with her little rabbit. China beat India, but trails Japan.
Besides having met some of the people working on this in China, the launch has additional personal significance to me since the moon festival is my wedding […]
I often need to get a list of the largest files and directories on my drive. I always used the Unix ‘du’ command to do this — just du -k, sort in reverse and head 50. When I switched to using Windows, I used the ‘du’ found in the Windows binaries of the gnu utilities, […]
It’s amazing how behind-the-curve mainstream American media can be. It seems that CNET is just now realizing that search traffic in China gets hijacked and re-routed.
The article speculates that the Chinese government is doing this. This is a pretty stupid speculation. Last time I ran into this issue, I found that a Chinese government router […]