Benson's Blag

If you haven’t read it already I highly recommend reading World of Ends...

Dec 30th

I ran out of ice cream. :-(

Dec 30th

Alright, time to get my arse to work. That week off sure was nice.

Dec 29th

Had a fantastic christmas with the family and Ashleigh. Nevertheless, it’s good to be back at...

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Dec 27th

http://twitpic.com/wu5h - Stormy Weather

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Stormy Weather

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http://twitpic.com/w2jg - Winter Storm

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Winter Storm

Dec 25th

Had a fantastic dinner with @nathancarnes at the High Life. Best steak I’ve had in a good long...

Dec 23rd

Working from home today to decrease the odds of becoming a part of someone else’s car...

Dec 23rd

It’s beautiful bright and sunny and freezing cold still.

Dec 23rd

Using an IDE makes me feel like I am not a real programmer, but I do not have a choice, because...

Dec 23rd

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I really never find myself craving IPAs.

Dec 21st

http://twitpic.com/ugd2 - Pizza Bread!

Dec 20th

Defense grid fucking rocks!!!

Dec 20th

The more I learn about java the more it drives me FACKING INSANE.

Dec 20th

Pizza Bread!

Dec 20th

I’m 17.6% addicted to film: http://plutor.org/filmaddict/?f=5461uofu

Dec 20th

RT @bs Dear VI, I know Ihaven’t been faithful lately. But I can’t get you out of my...

Dec 20th

People are such pansies about driving in the snow. I had to pass about 20 uberslow drivers on my way...

Dec 19th

RT @_why i want to see apple put out a christmas macbook made of white chocolate just so i can hear...

Dec 19th

Discussing Haskell with a friend/coworker — concluded that the problem with Haskell is that it...

Dec 19th

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Dec 18th

That was a whole crapload of tweets, I’m sorry about that. Lots of photos needed uploading and...

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I’m posting some pictures I took at my parents’ place over the weekend. Beware the snow.

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Has anyone else found the glider pad on the mighty mouse insufficient? Is there any sort of fix out...

Dec 17th

Apple is ditching Macworld? (Link thanks to @CaliLewis)...

Dec 17th

Listening to Rammstein to try to stay awake. I do love german lyrics.

Dec 17th

Has anyone found a working android sftp client? I’m going nuts without one.

Dec 16th

Good day. Getting to know latex better, going to get to play with some WorldWind APIs, and I got to...

Dec 16th

Amusing foxtrot rehash I found in @jf’s latex delicious page:...

Dec 16th

Loving last.fm support on the G1. Using Scrobble Droid. :-)

Dec 16th

Looking at the latex typesetting system, saw a page talking about latex allergies. Initial reaction...

Dec 15th

Work. Wooo!

Dec 15th

I believe this is going to be a caffeine rich day. That doesn’t bode well for migraine...

Dec 15th

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Dec 14th

http://twitpic.com/slmc - Breezy Day on the Ferry

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Breezy Day on the Ferry

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http://twitpic.com/sea2 - A Number of Computers

Dec 13th

A Number of Computers: This is my desk.

Dec 13th

Metaprogramming is basically a word for designing your framework as a series of monkey patches on...

Dec 13th

RT @TechCrunch Why We Need to Go Digital This Holiday http://tinyurl.com/5o5xcy

Dec 13th

RT @adrianpike: Epilogue regarding the LINUX IS EEEEVILLLL teacher: http://is.gd/bnJr

Dec 13th

Nothing worse than nubs running the NOC.

Dec 12th

I like scotch. Just killed a bottle of Bowmore. Good times.

Dec 12th

I was just told by @lashleigh: “I always knew you’d go crazy, I just thought it would...

Dec 12th

I’ve read all the EJB 1.x code I can handle for today. I think I kind of understand wth is...

Dec 12th

Backlit keyboards are seriously FTW.

Dec 12th

Any sciency type software engineers in the seattle area interested in working for a government...

Dec 12th

When you have 2 GB of storage, you don’t put things you don’t like on the device....

Dec 12th

It’s different, and less refined than the iPod interface, but I kind of like the Android music...

Dec 12th

Looks like it’s a good time to be trying to hire good people.

Dec 11th

RT @elliottkember Anybody free this weekend? http://tinyurl.com/5cfmaf

Dec 11th

The point of EJBs is loose coupling on the backend. (That sounds dirty, but it’s true.) Tight...

Dec 11th

I wish more of my work could be done in non-retarded languages.

Dec 11th

RT @adrianpike: BEWARE THE EVILS OF LINUX: http://is.gd/aS5O

Dec 11th

Checking out Mr. Tweet (@mrtweet).

Dec 11th

cutting board: I saw this at the ballard farmers market.

Dec 10th

another cutting board: from Ballard farmers market

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and some more: aren’t they pretty?

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http://twitpic.com/ro6y - another cutting board

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Dec 10th

Finishing up a fantastic meal at the high life.

Dec 10th

canal!

Dec 9th

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http://twitpic.com/rfa9 - found the cupcake place!

Dec 9th

Went for a nice walk before work.

Dec 9th

found the cupcake place!

Dec 9th

Compiling Python 3.0 — I’ll check it out and see what I think. I hear it’s slower,...

Dec 9th

testing night performance

Dec 9th

This looks pretty sweet: http://www.solar-aid.org/

Dec 9th

Dudes with iphones / G1s / other smartphones: Does it make you uncomfortable having the internet...

Dec 9th

http://twitpic.com/rbmq - testing night performance

Dec 9th

Compass mode in the Android maps application is ri-goddamned-diculous. Also, fan-fucking-tastic.

Dec 8th

woo, voicemail is set up.

Dec 8th

I got everything merged over, my old razr is now completely useless. I’m a T-Mobile customer...

Dec 8th

Loving how easy it is to listen to music and set ringtones on the G1.

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Android looks just as awesome in the morning as it did last night. Gonna go try out the camera.

Dec 7th

Checking out twitter clients for the G1. Somebody should write a @tatango a G1 app…

Dec 7th

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Cookies!

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test: test

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Ashleigh Making Cookies!: Ashleigh is making awesomo...

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http://twitpic.com/qvg8 - Ashleigh Making Cookies!

Dec 7th

Looks like i’m buying a G1 now.

Dec 7th

Got me a new G1 in my pocket. Waiting for the account to activate.

Dec 7th

So far the G1 rocks uber hard. I love it.

Dec 7th

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Dec 7th

Happy repeal day: http://www.repealday.org/

Dec 6th

My car is fixed. It was the oil plug. I feel stupid for not making really goddamned sure.

Dec 6th

The mars science lab is using a nuclear power plant. I think that’s pretty fantastic.

Dec 6th

rt @marsphoenix We can’t quit you, either! The team saw and loved this today — very, uh,...

Dec 6th

Today I experimentally determined that biking to work is a viable option.

Dec 5th

RT @jf I still find it hard to believe that Microsoft is mounting a defensive ad campaign in...

Dec 5th

Got a ride home, will bike to work in the morning. :-/ Uncle is going to pick up my truck for...

Dec 5th

Was just given a 20” Cinema display at work. 24” Dell now attached to linux box,...

Dec 5th

My car just spewed all its oil onto the floor of the parking garage at work.

Dec 5th

A complete Haskell definition of the fibonacci sequence: fibs = 1 : scanl (+) 1 fibs

Dec 4th

Quicksort implementation in Haskell: qs [] = [] qs (x:xs) = (qs [ v | v<-xs, v<=x ]) ++ [x]...

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I am stupid. Much cleaner syntax this way: scanl (+) 0 array

Dec 4th

Java, taking the fun out of coding since 1995.

Dec 4th

I hate it when shortly after building something I realize I’ve done it wrong and have to...

Dec 4th

Playing with NASA WorldWind and cursing the fact that JOGL text rendering is broken on the mac.

Dec 4th

Maven’s assembly plugin makes it super easy to build an executable jar file. I am a fan.

Dec 3rd

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Dec 3rd

badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger …

Dec 3rd

DAMN THE TORPEDOES!

Dec 3rd

As perl leads to “I know! I’ll use regular expressions!” so does java lead to...

Dec 3rd

Just wrote a shell script that “parses” (using the term generously) the maven-generated...

Dec 3rd

The new Core i7 intel chips look shiny. Quad core on a single die, each core can clock up and down...

Dec 3rd

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Dec 3rd

Firefox 3 is actually really impressing me. WTF, man? But it’s hot. Things run fast, and...

Dec 3rd

Anybody know if you can run 3 monitors off of 2 SLI-connected cards? Or if there’s a good way...

Dec 3rd

I’m pretty excited for the JITter in Firefox 3.1. But no firebug! What will I do?!

Dec 2nd