Benson's Blag

Gonna read this tonight. RT @adrianpike:Actually, heck - all engineers working with floats need to...

Mar 31st

Does anyone know if the netflix “watch now” crap can be hacked to work on linux?

Mar 31st

Just finished #BSG. Kind of a mindfuck.

Mar 31st

XKCD today is fantastic. http://xkcd.com/562/

Mar 31st

RT @window: brickwork repaired with legos http://tinyurl.com/cxz2ak

Mar 31st

RT @Treygdor: RT @MrSamurai: public class ZeGoggles{ public ZeGoggles() {} public void DoSomething()...

Mar 31st

Scanning networks with nmap to detect Conficker: http://www.skullsecurity.org/blog/?p=209

Mar 31st

RT @god: Church mice…now this is cheesy! http://bit.ly/CbWOG

Mar 31st

Good time not to run windows. RT @ryanaraine: fake conficker removal tools (rogue av) popping up all...

Mar 31st

RT @puredanger: Awesome. Grape-sized single-cell creatures discovered rolling themselves across sea...

Mar 31st

Concerning: Valgrind says conditional jmp or mov depends on uninitialized values (within...

Mar 31st

It’d be nice if Exchange “out of office” responses didn’t get sent to people...

Mar 31st

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Mar 30th

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Mar 30th

RT @fuzzy_waffle:I officially declare python to be better than ruby and perl.

Mar 28th

Trying to debug a memory issue, and valgrind is pointing me to the minilzo.c code. This is some of...

Mar 28th

This looks like it can haz the potential to become skynet. http://tinyurl.com/dnlp5n

Mar 28th

uberfast electric 1972 Datsun FTMFW http://tinyurl.com/cw4y32 (via @ericpratum)

Mar 28th

Whoever came up with the line “when I hand her the keys to a shiny new Austrailia” is a...

Mar 28th

Listening to @drhorrible sound track. Amazon mp3 store FTMFW. So awesome words fail me.

Mar 28th

My office mate just gave me a logitech USB mouse to use instead of the bluetooth apple mighty mouse....

Mar 27th

RT @al3x:I wonder why UPS doesn’t offer paid mid-stream upgrades. “On second thought, I...

Mar 27th

Me too. RT @duwanis:Depending on what the features are, I might be gone when this launches:...

Mar 27th

#nojava7 RT @puredanger:Stephen voices an important opinion on JDK 7 vs Java 7 …...

Mar 27th

Compiler, compile thyself!

Mar 26th

RT @shazzzam:Inference for R:http://bit.ly/hWjqO Execute R code in Word/Excel to create formatted...

Mar 25th

RT @azaaza:Heh. http://www.yourlogomakesmebarf.com

Mar 25th

RT @god:JC asked for his own font. Almost told him to go to Helvetica, but decided the following...

Mar 24th

I had a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast, and as a result am hungrier now than I am most days (when I...

Mar 23rd

ISB Wall Carving

Mar 23rd

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Mar 23rd

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Mar 22nd

http://twitpic.com/2ccls - ISB Wall Carving

Mar 22nd

RT @ryancarson: This comment by @KathySierra has completely changed my view on community building....

Mar 21st

When running a single process eating the full CPU, the CPU1 vs CPU2 graph is funny.

Mar 21st

Okay, so I’m going to ignore everything everyone says for the next 18 hours or so, in hopes of...

Mar 21st

Ashleigh’s New Pretty

Mar 21st

Awesome: RT @google:No regrets: Gmail undo send http://bit.ly/Ijqt

Mar 20th

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Mar 20th

http://twitpic.com/29l6z - Ashleigh’s New Pretty

Mar 20th

The netvibes twitter widget just got awesome. :-D

Mar 20th

RT @elliottkember:Breathless with awe: http://tinyurl.com/clkd2m That’s the most incredible...

Mar 20th

A friend needs a good advanced twitter client for the iPhone. Suggestions?

Mar 20th

I’m tempted to do this: RT @dakami:Watching a friend of mine call her ISP tech support line to ask...

Mar 19th

RT @al3x:IBM buying Sun would really consolidate the Boring in the tech industry.

Mar 19th

RT @azaaza:I like where http://adioso.com/ is going. It’s a site I’ve been wanting to...

Mar 19th

RT @dakami Jokes aside, making two IPv4 networks in overlapping RFC1918 IP space interoperate is...

Mar 19th

RT @ryanaraine:sergio alvarez about to drop smartphone 0day at #cansecwest. to affected vendors:...

Mar 19th

RT @dalmaer:Java will indeed by shaken up (as will many things) if IBM ends up owning JAVA...

Mar 18th

RT @duwanis:Someone clearly hid text on my twitter profile stating “this person loves to talk...

Mar 18th

RT @doctorow:If bully took kid’s lunch $, more $ to kids wouldn’t feed them. Esp if...

Mar 18th

RT @rossmason:Possible Sun buyout by IBM in the WSJ: http://tinyurl.com/c46kwg

Mar 18th

JAVA IS SO GOD DAMNED UGLY!

Mar 18th

Excuse me, I have Tourette’s.

Mar 18th

RT @arielwaldman I feel like the less tech savvy you are, the more you talk about Twitter nowadays.

Mar 18th

If only there were an nk TLD, somebody could host a url shortener at http://li.nk/

Mar 18th

Hell yeah! RT @elliottkember:You know what? I’m no sissy. I run as root....

Mar 18th

I wasn’t using twitter when I first read this, so I now feel an obligation to tweet it:...

Mar 17th

Rocking out to Flogging Molly and the Pogues today. This evening: beer and whiskey. Disinclined to...

Mar 17th

RT @burke_eric:Every developer knows P2P is nothing new…but the cynic in me assumes Apple will...

Mar 17th

RT @mike9r Dell Adamo compared to MacBook Air: heavier, thicker, slower, more expensive. Now *that*...

Mar 17th

RT @doctorow hypothesis: consistency in serial comma ignores questions of prose rhythms and should...

Mar 17th

Of course, the obvious solution nobody’s talking about is to stop using things like DHCP. Sure...

Mar 17th

This is pretty sweet… RT @geekgrrl New DNS trojan taints entire LAN from single box...

Mar 17th

Using LaTeX, Vim and a Makefile just feels like the Right Way (tm) to write an article.

Mar 17th

Checking out mac port of graphviz (shiny UI, etc) at pixelglow.com/graphviz. Apparently there is an...

Mar 17th

Checking out nambu, liking it. www.nambu.com. (Thanks to @rstevens for the recommendation)

Mar 17th

After some consideration, I applaud the BBC for their illegal yet ethical and important story on...

Mar 17th

The Definition of Awesome

Mar 17th

bash trick of the day: The pair of characters !$ means “the last word of my previous...

Mar 17th

RT @mike9r Obama orders Treasury Secretary to block the hundreds of millions A.I.G. was about to...

Mar 17th

RT @ryanaraine BBC said the botnet had cost “a few thousand dollars”, and that the BBC...

Mar 17th

If you are a programmer, and you don’t know how to do pointer arithmetic in C or how to use...

Mar 16th

The time for action has come! The time for action has gone. Now is the time for endless bickering.

Mar 16th

http://twitpic.com/25ai2 - The Definition of Awesome

Mar 16th

RT @doctorow Holy crap this pisses me off: http://tinyurl.com/cl2rh3

Mar 15th

C lets you do hilarious and stupid shit: buf = realloc(buf, size=size*2);

Mar 14th

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Mar 14th

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Mar 14th

Let’s be clear, Serenity is a good name for the module even without the firefly reference,...

Mar 13th

I finally had the hyperthreading lightbulb go on. I think I understand what it’s good for now.

Mar 13th

RT @micheleboyd [NASA poll] to name the new space station? “Serenity” is in the lead?...

Mar 13th

You know, twitter is great and all, but I just can’t see dedicating an entire monitor to it....

Mar 13th

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Mar 13th

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Mar 13th

#DEFINE 1024 KB

Mar 12th

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Mar 12th

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Mar 12th

RT @overtfascist Artificial sweetener FAIL http://is.gd/mBgb Splenda isn’t broken down in...

Mar 12th

This is pretty cute: RT @azaaza Periodic table of Typefaces: http://tinyurl.com/ar8cz7

Mar 12th

I am opposed to twitlonger.com on principle. 140 chars is the beauty of twitter.

Mar 11th

So, from what I’m reading, Java 7 had proposals for closures and properties, and both were...

Mar 11th

PLZ 2 USE YAML 4 UR CFG FILEZ. KTHXBAI.

Mar 11th

RT @azaaza Design should be an invisible butler, not a flamboyant choreographer.

Mar 10th

Everyone check out @elliotkember’s amusing single-serving site: http://tinyurl.com/a4znop

Mar 10th

RT @elliottkember Also, I really want to develop using the Rubber Duck method:...

Mar 10th

Snowed briefly at southwest lake union, then stopped. Nothing stuck #wasnow

Mar 10th

RT @wailinglist Introducing KLEPTOCRACY Tees - Who Said Cheaters Never Win? http://cli.gs/sJp2eP

Mar 9th

At first blush, I think MULE may suffer from overzealous architecture. YAGNI. http://mulesource.org/

Mar 9th

RT @snowhit I have a passion. And that passion is ignoring your application invites on facebook.

Mar 9th

RT @ryanaraine dave winer wants url-shorteners everywhere http://snurl.com/dgghn phishers and...

Mar 9th

RT @alleyinsider D.C. Staffers Hate The BlackBerry Storm http://bit.ly/ktvK

Mar 7th

Excellent and insightful blog post by @arielwaldman: http://tinyurl.com/dgnxzs

Mar 6th

This whole #followfriday thing is ridiculous. Different people have different interests, how can you...

Mar 6th

RT @al3x “No one likes a truncated tweet.” - @chockenberry

Mar 6th

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Mar 6th

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Mar 6th

New TLD “.eco”? SRSLY? http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2605/

Mar 6th

import skynet^M^H^H^H^H^H^H^HSHITSHITSHIT

Mar 6th

RT @overtfascist Jail for 60 mon for savagely beating people, 48 mon for creating a bot-net, receive...

Mar 6th

With the abstractions out there for development of cluster-based code, I think people sometimes...

Mar 6th

Wheee, @MrTweet_Alert Fail. I RT’d @tatango_amiel because it was funny, and mr tweet...

Mar 5th

lmao RT @tatango_amiel #MrTweet I recommend @tatango because he is my boss

Mar 5th

Hacking the mad C makes me feel like a real programmer again.

Mar 5th

Just finished problem 9 of project Euler. Now I’m done with 1 through 10. This leaves me at...

Mar 5th

It’s amazing how much space you can save by not being brain dead when deciding on data...

Mar 5th

From man lseek on OSX: “BUGS: This document’s use of whence is incorrect English, but is...

Mar 5th

I love writing software. I love designing software. Above all, I love designing and then writing...

Mar 5th

RT @runkeeper hey @bitly, look what you have done to my shortened url! http://bit.ly/COCK

Mar 2nd