Monday, May 24, 2010

See, this is why people like Google

When they update their SDKs, they add features that you want, with exactly the same names that you would have given them.

I need to get my hands on an Android 2.2 device just so I can write a program that calls this... under exceptional conditions that would never actually occur, of course.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Possibly intentional?

Sun's Oracle's pseudo-man page for the GlassFish create-domain command documents the --terse option twice.

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Happy Bomb20 Day!

In 1998, David Skiba recorded "Made of Shit!"

All other techstep — past, present, and future — instantly became obsolete.

Friday, April 30, 2010

Test (part 3?)

So, after many years of resisting, I now have a phone that could be described as fancy and/or schmancy.

It's kind of neat being able to check e-mail and look up maps without having a PC around, but I really miss having a full-sized or even laptop-sized keyboard. I am finding it difficult totype without committing an uncharacteridtically large number of mistakrd, for instance.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Beverage observation

When you pour Diet Mountain Mtn Dew out of a room-temperature can and into a cup, it smells like bathroom cleaner.

Pizza Bites

This didn't turn out as well as I had hoped — the crust was too thick, the sauce didn't complement the toppings, and the lox lost most of its flavor in the oven — and my inexperience with the Droid camera made it look less appetizing than it actually was, but even so:

Pizza with smoked salmon, cream cheese, and chopped-up mini-bagels.

Bagels in the morning,
Bagels in the evening,
Bagels at suppertime!
When bagels are on a pizza,
You can eat bagels anytime!

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Get off my lawn

When I see a headline on Digg like, "BREAKING: Twitter Acquires Tweetie," my eyes involuntarily roll back in their sockets and I can't help but wonder how the world could possibly get any more inane.

I am officially old now.