Benson's Blag

I love that in Python you can’t write code that looks like ass. I hate that in Java you can...

Jan 31st

Cory Doctorow on ISP three-strikes policies:...

Jan 31st

Earthquake Epicenter: http://tinyurl.com/cz59j5

Jan 30th

Seattle did actually have an earthquake:...

Jan 30th

Hooray, chai!

Jan 30th

RT @Twitterkins (to @hodgman) When you presume, you make a president out of you and me.

Jan 30th

OpenSSH is one of the very best pieces of software I have ever used.

Jan 30th

Zombies Ahead! http://tinyurl.com/c2s3nw (via @npost)

Jan 28th

RT @arielwaldman OMFG, it was only a matter of time before CupcakeCamp gave way to BaconCamp:...

Jan 28th

Delicious chai ftw.

Jan 27th

Comparing Macs to Dells is like comparing Jonagolds to crabapples.

Jan 27th

Coding while buzzed! Balmer peak here I come!

Jan 27th

I hate working on crap code.

Jan 27th

I do enjoy a good gin and tonic.

Jan 27th

This piece of software generated some of the most hideous code I’ve seen:...

Jan 27th

Wrestling with the Amazing Expanding JPanel. No idea WTF it’s happening, but it looks like...

Jan 27th

Wooo, tax time soon! At least I won’t have any cap gains!

Jan 27th

I don’t know if this is a personal failing or what, but I effectively cannot read code that is...

Jan 27th

It appears that a sense of urgency works as well as anything to make boring jobs interesting to me....

Jan 27th

RT @elliottkember Can somebody spare 3 followers? I’ve been on 897 for days now :(

Jan 24th

The answer, of course, is no. You didn’t.

Jan 23rd

Today is the day when you hope to god you engineered your shit well, because you have a dozen things...

Jan 23rd

After using a lot of dynamic languages for a while, the only thing that isn’t pissing me off...

Jan 21st

Charles Petzold has a fantastic sense of humor: http://www.charlespetzold.com/etc/CSAML.html (from...

Jan 21st

RT @elliottkember Well, http://www.howtousetwitterformarketingandpr.com/ is all I’m going to...

Jan 21st

My computer is reading me the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy. Fuck yeah. (Thanks festival!)

Jan 21st

The fact that java lacks properties is beginning to piss me right off.

Jan 21st

RT @obamainaugural President Obama

Jan 20th

RT @jeresig Great speech - and a great day. Pretty awesome to load up Whitehouse.gov and see jQuery...

Jan 20th

If you are a professional programmer and you are not proficient with your source control tool,...

Jan 20th

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Jan 20th

http://twitpic.com/14wdm - 1232414779020.jpg

Jan 20th

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Jan 20th

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Jan 20th

http://twitpic.com/14qhl - the other culprit

Jan 19th

http://twitpic.com/14qk2 - gonna be a few minutes late

Jan 19th

http://twitpic.com/14qf1 - the result

Jan 19th

http://twitpic.com/14qe6 - the culprit

Jan 19th

the culprit

Jan 19th

the result

Jan 19th

the other culprit

Jan 19th

gonna be a few minutes late

Jan 19th

BSOD

Jan 18th

http://twitpic.com/145hh - BSOD

Jan 18th

I hate it when people commit giant chunks of commented out code.

Jan 17th

In Java the autocalculated “serialVersionUID” field is unstable between compilers. This...

Jan 16th

It is my opinion that @pintsize0101 is disgusting.

Jan 16th

One of my favourite @jonathancoulton lyrics: “You’re all alone? Well maybe that’s...

Jan 16th

The NASA twitter feeds are incredibly exciting, but they also piss me off. Aren’t there...

Jan 15th

It occurs to me that the reason my job is pain right now is that I’m doing nothing but code...

Jan 15th

Is anybody else fed up with the G1’s super slow response time when too many apps are running?

Jan 14th

Happy Patch Tuesday, everyone!

Jan 14th

Java developers: If you are not down with the Maven, you are missing out.

Jan 14th

I love NASA and space exploration as much as the next guy, but sometimes I wonder if it’s...

Jan 13th

G1 Multitouch support? http://tinyurl.com/7qdbpm

Jan 12th

The old macbook pro’s battery charging circuits are very very hot. Whenever it’s...

Jan 12th

http://twitpic.com/127c9 - 1231780974783.jpg

Jan 12th

http://twitpic.com/127bn - I do love Ballard.

Jan 12th

http://twitpic.com/127cf - Go Time

Jan 12th

http://twitpic.com/127bf - The Waiting

Jan 12th

http://twitpic.com/127bg - The Waiting

Jan 12th

The Waiting

Jan 12th

The Waiting

Jan 12th

I do love Ballard.

Jan 12th

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Jan 12th

Go Time

Jan 12th

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Jan 10th

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Jan 10th

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Jan 10th

http://twitpic.com/11kk1 - 1231618982568.jpg

Jan 10th

http://twitpic.com/11kjq - 1231618956439.jpg

Jan 10th

http://twitpic.com/11kjt - 1231618935316.jpg

Jan 10th

Nasty microsoft layoff rumors from cnet (15000 is a lot of people to lay off.)...

Jan 8th

Woot, skype for android! http://tinyurl.com/8asvy2 (via @BenFeldman)

Jan 8th

Java — The New COBOL.

Jan 8th

RT @joshs633: Released our first iPhone game - Tic A Tac Poker! Tic Tac Toe meets poker. Buy it now...

Jan 8th

rt @arielwaldman NASA wants *your* vote on who the next NASA Administrator should be at...

Jan 8th

I’m giving them until just after lunch to fix the internet connectivity issues, and then...

Jan 7th

Ashleigh on Ruby’s class definition syntax: “It’s ugly, kind of awkward, and...

Jan 7th

Our modern computers basically emulate a non Von Neumann architecture on a Von Neumann arcitecutre....

Jan 7th

I think Pied Piper by The Senate (http://senateband.com) is my favourite song ever.

Jan 7th

PLZ TO NOT BREAK TEH BUILD. KTHXBYE.

Jan 6th

…and I’m spent.

Jan 6th

I am becoming more convinced that the reason WorldWind looks kind of like ass is because of the low...

Jan 6th

Protip: Don’t add dependencies to your .classpath in an eclipse project that exist outside the...

Jan 6th

Bucket List: * Take a year or more off work and create some sort of awesome open source software.

Jan 6th

http://twitpic.com/zyrz - 1231185964341.jpg

Jan 6th

Bucket List: Drinking tour of the British Isles by bicycle.

Jan 6th

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Jan 5th

Feeling some kidney twinges, hoping it’s not a kidney stones issue. Going to drink a lot of...

Jan 5th

rt @dalmaer The cloud is like high school sex. Everyone is talking about it. Hardly anyone is doing...

Jan 3rd

And a followup because this didn’t fit in the original retweet: s/The Cloud/(SOA|EJB)/

Jan 3rd

Ooops: http://www.twhoops.com

Jan 3rd

Donating $100 to the wikimedia foundation, because they are doing good things for good reasons. If...

Jan 2nd

rt @elliottkember Good old Microsoft. Even their Y2K bug took 9 years.

Jan 2nd

So much code, and it does so little. *sigh* Java.

Jan 2nd

http://twitpic.com/yusk - iPod Vending Machine

Jan 2nd

iPod Vending Machine

Jan 2nd