The comments people post on The Consumerist articles are among the most blame-the-customer-first I’ve ever seen. Is it unfair to judge a blog based on the comments? Perhaps, but it’s hard for me not to when the pro-corporate theme is so overwhelming.

Text you place in code that you know you’ll search for later. One common example is “XXX“. If I have to write a quick-n-dirty hack to get around a problem, I’ll usually put an XXX comment near it. When I’m done writing the code, I’ll recursively grep for XXX to see if there’s anything I [...]

I’ve moved from Iceweasel to Firefox 3 beta4, and I’m in love. The bookmark handling is sweet. You can just edit a bookmark by going to the page and clicking on a little icon in the location bar. You can add and remove bookmarks right there, too. The save-password dialog box has been replaced with [...]

So I’m taking a math class (pre-calc), mostly as a way to try to feel less dumb in my day-to-day life. I’m doing OK at it, getting most of the “higher” principles such as using conjugates to decomplexificate* a complex ratio. But I’m having trouble remembering some of the basics, especially during quizzes.
Historically, I’ve done [...]