Benson's Blag

Been using iTunes to rent movies a bit recently. If you have a decent net connection it’s...

Nov 27th

Getting paid is nice. That’s one of my favourite parts of having a job.

Nov 27th

Brought to my attention by @fuzzy_waffle: http://www.corepy.org/

Nov 27th

Zucchini bread and nutella sandwich FTMFW.

Nov 26th

I do enjoy a bit of Rage now and again.

Nov 26th

I sometimes forget that I can listen to music at work if I pull out my iPod. When I finally do...

Nov 26th

Listening to LTE FTW.

Nov 26th

112508_11321.jpg: Rally car maybe?

Nov 25th

Found a firefox plugin that lets you use regexes for searching. Hell yeah.

Nov 25th

My computer’s aluminum chassis is so hot in some places it burns.

Nov 25th

Woo, build monkeying. It’s actually kind of fun.

Nov 25th

Scapy is really really awesome. I will have to play with it more later. It almost made me late for...

Nov 24th

After some looking, it looks like scapy will do the hard bits for me, so I think I’ll start...

Nov 24th

Scapy looks like a really cool tool. I’m going to have to get to know it better.

Nov 24th

Thinking about building a two-part firewall rule-mapping tool. Wooo, raw sockets!

Nov 24th

Went on a 20 mile bike ride to Matthews Beach and back. Picked up a bottle of Lagavulin 16 on the...

Nov 24th

Matthews Beach: We biked to Matthews Beach on lake...

Nov 24th

This is shaping up to be a very good day.

Nov 24th

112308_12421.jpg: Crepes with whipped cream and berries....

Nov 24th

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Nov 23rd

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Nov 23rd

112208_22311.jpg: Hand whipped.

Nov 23rd

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Nov 23rd

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Nov 23rd

The View From Home (part 2)

Nov 23rd

Note to self and anyone else who cares: never bike in magnolia.

Nov 22nd

Woo, rails hacking. It’s as fun as I remembered. Off to bed now.

Nov 22nd

Indulging in a bit of Laphroaig (only 10 year, though) and hacking on Classbud a bit.

Nov 22nd

foobar

Nov 22nd

You know what I hate? The fucking blink tag. The blink tag should not exist. My browser should...

Nov 22nd

Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux on a new desktop at work. It’s all very exciting.

Nov 22nd

What I learned in school today: Iff the primary monitor is higher or equal resolution, it will work...

Nov 21st

A two-tangerine breakfast, with a cliff bar for dessert. Wooo!

Nov 21st

112008_19461.jpg: Likely the coolest thing ever.

Nov 21st

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Nov 21st

NASA WorldWind looks way better on my linux machine than it does on a Mac. This may be a first.

Nov 20th

if(thing == “foo”) // This should really be true if the variable “thing”...

Nov 20th

Making shit work is rewarding. Especially shit you’ve worked on for weeks on end.

Nov 19th

“Balls, and shit.” —Ashleigh

Nov 19th

Maven is rocking pretty hard. I’m happy.

Nov 19th

Rockin’ awesome. Got mah shit all packaged up and ready to roll. I like the maven assembly...

Nov 19th

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Nov 19th

Redmine looks pretty cool, if you’re looking for an open source web based bug tracker, but...

Nov 19th

Screw this place, I’m going home.

Nov 19th

At home now, so I can get some actual work done, now that I have an internet connection again.

Nov 19th

Looks like somebody thought it’d be good for security to unplug the network center.

Nov 19th

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Nov 19th

I like Yaml. It’s like XML, except without the suck. (Don’t get me wrong, XML is pretty...

Nov 18th

Realizing bookmarks can serve as url-bar aliases makes them useful to me. I can’t believe it...

Nov 18th

Awesome: www.american.edu/tesol/NoPunInTenDid.pdf

Nov 18th

Woo, work! I’ve got two days worth of work that should have been done by Friday. Wheeee!

Nov 18th

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Nov 15th

An hour and a bit pas quitting time and my shit all works, I’m going home. :-D

Nov 14th

FACKING JAVA, FUNCTIONS SHOULD NOT RETURN DIFFERENT VALUES OVER THE SAME INPUTS.

Nov 13th

Java, please do not garbage collect my static members. I was using that.

Nov 13th

This code is only 2 months younger than I am.

Nov 13th

No, hotmail, I do not want to “upgrade” from Galeon to a browser you know about. I like...

Nov 12th

Hooray for trying to understand ancient fortran code. http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PC_PROD/SPCS83/

Nov 12th

Feeling stupid. A function toLatLng(double northing, double easting) should be called as toLatLng(y,...

Nov 12th

That AVG thing is kind of a shame. Sucks to be those users. :-(

Nov 12th

It’s a beautiful grey blustery morning.

Nov 11th

Retweeting @MarsPhoenix Triumph <3

Nov 11th

Ich höre Rammstein.

Nov 11th

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Nov 8th

Jonathan Coulton and John Hodgeman were pretty awesome.

Nov 7th

I just ran the command ‘mvn jar:jar’ and started thinking of crappy star wars prequels.

Nov 7th

I don’t understand why cell phone companies don’t use strong crypto when locking phones...

Nov 6th

Going to see Jonathan Coulton and John Hodgeman at Town Hall tonight.

Nov 6th

Looks like no more ssh at work. :-(

Nov 6th

Yes, we can.

Nov 5th

class AllYourBase; belongs_to :us; has_one :bomb; end

Nov 5th

Wtf hail?!

Nov 5th

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Nov 5th

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Nov 5th

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Nov 5th

It appears everything broke for a minute there.

Nov 5th

This was useful: http://tinyurl.com/5qrdj9

Nov 5th

Determinism is for sissies.

Nov 5th

If you’re eligible and you haven’t already, vote you lazy ass. (I’m hoping this...

Nov 5th

It’d be nice if people didn’t set their default email font to purple comic sans.

Nov 4th

What do you call a loop that is constantly checking flags on some object? A flag poll!

Nov 4th

I don’t know what to think: http://www.pyhp.org/

Nov 4th

I just voted for Obama in #TwitVote — http://twitvote.twitmarks.com/

Nov 1st