As all programmers know, there are serious problems with the way our society has chosen to divide up time. As an example, right now it is 9:44pm on Monday, 21 March 2011. Quick, what is the date and time in one month, five days, eight hours, 23 minutes and 45 seconds.
I’m sure you’ve all worked [...]
Tagged comp. sci., time is on your side“Please use this M&M for breeding purposes.” I am certain that is older than 2007. But thanks to the Internet Event Horizon, that’s where Google tells me it is from. Does anyone out there know where this originated?
There should be credit where credit is due.
Tagged internet event horizon, m&mAustralia in all its cultural majesty has co-opted yet another foreign tradition: hallowe’en. An ancient pagan European tradition celebrating the movement of dark forces through the night. The Americans took it first: a party for children. And now Australia has added our spin: alcohol and lots of it.
No need to thank us; we’re pretty proud [...]
Tagged socialNow that I’m using some proper tools for my blog editing I’m going back through my old posts making sure the formatting and HTML are correct. In particular, I’ve turned off the Blogger setting to do magic with line breaks, and instead I’m manually inserting <br/>’s where I want them to be.
This is better for my general OCD nature [...]