http://hewo.xedoloh.com I know code fu. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:17:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My co-worker (Jeff) and I were discussing the disparity between people who say "LOL" in IM but are, in fact, not laughing out loud. He suggested that it was really laughing internally loudly, so I suggested LiL. I then told him that when I do so, I am ... http://hewo.xedoloh.com/2010/02/new-internet-meme/ Being health-conscious in 2009 apparently boils down to saving yourself from H1N1. Since many health efforts are rooted in fear of H1N1, I'm saying that Google is the new H1N1 plan. Substitute H1N1 for health in this Dilbert comic: http://dilbert.com/2007-02-18. http://hewo.xedoloh.com/2009/10/google-is-the-new-h1n1-plan/ While discussing recent physics work that involves quasiparticles and the apparent observation of magnetic monopolism with Chris Arnold, I thought it was appropriate to reduce the description of said research to "near-zero-K quantum voodoo". It seems quite appropriate. Source: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/40302 http://hewo.xedoloh.com/2009/10/near-zero-k-quantum-voodoo/ I added a link to the Time Traveler Convention on my notes a while back.  Figured I'd propagate it here too. Original Link: Time Traveler Convention The Time Traveler Convention May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC) (event starts at 8:00pm) East Campus Courtyard, MIT 42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W (42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees) http://hewo.xedoloh.com/2009/06/serving-the-past-future/ I've been reading a book titled Dreaming in Code recently, which is a rather extensive case study of the development of an open-source project named Chandler. Many of the lessons and references to programming in general have hit home with my experience. Things like the fact that many ... http://hewo.xedoloh.com/2008/01/analogs-and-parallels/ I came up with an idea this afternoon for a source code visualizer for Enterprise solutions. Basically it would provide a source code cloud built from files and their dependencies. Each cloud would be a logical block (function, if-statement, loop, etc.) and the user would be able to ... http://hewo.xedoloh.com/2007/11/code-mountain/ I exorcised the demons from my laptop over the Thanksgiving break.  Turns out that running an Athlon 64 at 2.0GHz with 3+ years of dust collection is a bad idea.  I had been forced to run everything with the power savings set to maximum (which under-clocks my CPU to 800MHz).  ... http://hewo.xedoloh.com/2007/11/dust-bunnies/ European: 24 mph http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/ Megan (one of my co-workers) was repeating Monty Python lines this afternoon. Figured I'd dig up a proof of the airspeed velocity of an un-laden swallow from Google. http://hewo.xedoloh.com/2007/11/airspeed-velocity-of-an-un-laden-swallow/ I followed an article today on Warden, the anti-cheating software used by Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. which eventually lead me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphic_code. The brief synopsis there got me thinking about the way in which anti-virus software currently works. I'm reasonably convinced that writing monolithic packages to combat swarms of ... http://hewo.xedoloh.com/2007/11/anti-viruses/ Well I finally decided to extract my copy of Wordpress and get things rolling tonight. I spent a good number of hours a couple of weekends ago getting software updated on my dedicated server and removing the Plesk admin interface that had been pre-installed about 2 years ago. ... http://hewo.xedoloh.com/2007/11/power-corrupts/