Benson's Blag

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Jul 2nd

SRSLY? PHP added support for goto? Why would you do that? http://idek.net/HPo

Jul 1st

RT @grey_area: RT @gcluley: Why it’s a **** idea not to mask passwords http://tr.im/qigc |...

Jul 1st

RT @dacort: It’s all fun and games ‘till somebody’s PII gets published.

Jul 1st

RT @burke_eric: “IE users can suck it.” http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/06/30/ff5

Jul 1st

RT @haykuro also, T-Mobile myTouch (until further notice) is not rootable. 1.33.0006 and 1.33.0010...

Jul 1st

My company is now “protecting” me from twitpic.com. This is getting a little silly.

Jun 29th

The most recent Twittch (http://twittch.com/24/) is really fantastic.

Jun 27th

It seems calling lzo_compress on the data is causing the pointer to the calling frame to get...

Jun 26th

Trying to track down a bug in my code, valgrind points out bugs in the lzo library I’m using....

Jun 25th

Break Time

Jun 25th

RT @exoticliability News from inside Iran: http://bit.ly/VnA3k

Jun 24th

I’m amused by how scared of (dynamic|duck) typing a lot of static language programmers are.

Jun 24th

RT @google: Reading & appreciating @markgimein & @slate for this POV on Google Books...

Jun 24th

RT @elliottkember: As per usual, Microsoft fail to do the right thing. http://fixoutlook.org,...

Jun 24th

Are there any programming languages that make clever use of pronouns? It seems like it could be very...

Jun 24th

RT @ryanaraine: Remote code execution exploit for Green Dam in the wild http://bit.ly/32EtPh

Jun 24th

Writing some stuff in Groovy. I had forgotten how much fun this language is. http://idek.net/GL8

Jun 23rd

RT @jayhawkbabe Nature spectacular: Volcano + shock-wave photographed from space http://bit.ly/THG9p

Jun 23rd

RT @ladyfox14: Awesome water fountain in japan (why does Japan get all the cool things?)...

Jun 23rd

RT @hypatiadotca: From the deptartment of what-could-possibly-go-wrong, BT serving up WiFi from...

Jun 23rd

http://twitpic.com/8241z - Who doesn’t like RC helis?

Jun 22nd

RT @mike9r: NuLayer has a nice site except they ripped off the @37signals snow globes....

Jun 22nd

Who doesn’t like RC helis?

Jun 22nd

Recently beat the 360 version of Force Unleashed. It’s an excellent game, but completely...

Jun 21st

RT @jack_daniel: I don’t want to outsource failure, that’s one of my core competencies.

Jun 20th

RT @luckiestmonkey: http://rubyurl.com/kEZV Prisoners have no constitutional right to DNA testing....

Jun 20th

Science == Hacking the universe.

Jun 20th

haha RT @burke_eric: I’m definitely switching to IE 8 after seeing this informative chart:...

Jun 19th

I did not know the android sdk had face detection software built in to it: http://idek.net/FfX

Jun 19th

RT @mulejockey: Using Mule for ETL: read it here at http://timesurl.at/04fddb

Jun 19th

Listening to SFU Pipe Band’s album “Alive In America” while doing a major...

Jun 19th

Looking into creating background processes in a rails app… not a lot out there. Any links...

Jun 19th

RT @burke_eric: My rambling thoughts on IE8: http://bit.ly/J5KZU

Jun 19th

I’m building a webapp! For Science!

Jun 18th

RT @duwanis: Silly question maybe, but how does turning my twitter avatar green help the Iranian...

Jun 18th

jQuery is really freaking sweet. If you are writing javascript and not using jQuery, I really hope...

Jun 18th

RT @dinodaizovi: Debt is normal. Be weird.

Jun 16th

Symantec Auto Protect on my mac at work is eating my CPU alive. And it’s compiled for PPC....

Jun 16th

RT @ryanaraine: apple patches java for mac. finally.

Jun 16th

RT @mubix: To all of you sys admins who make GPO settings that you “believe” everyone...

Jun 16th

Awesome onion article making fun of all of us, but in an amusing way: http://idek.net/FHi

Jun 16th

Mack & Jack’s and Reuben from HIlltop Ale House FTW.

Jun 13th

I believe JavaScript is the only language I’ve used wherein print() sends things to a fucking...

Jun 13th

I’d just like to point out that python integers are arbitrarily large. #twitpocalypse

Jun 13th

I wrote a python bouncing balls sim. Kind of fun: http://acm.wwu.edu/~bensonk/ball.py Problem with...

Jun 13th

(from @mubix) RT @backtracklinux: New blog post: ITunes Exploitation Case Study http://bit.ly/qW3zD

Jun 12th

Was asked to write a page scraping thingy for Google News Archive. Running in to rate limits. :-(

Jun 12th

Google Quick Search Box is the new quicksilver.

Jun 12th

Yeah, I have a problem or three with this. RT @mubix: Anyone else have a problem with this?...

Jun 12th

RT @burke_eric: Man on the Street Interview: What is a Browser? http://post.ly/p2j

Jun 12th

Apparently google news archive does NOT like to be page scraped. If I ever do this again I will look...

Jun 12th

Hotlinker threatens legal action when images are moved? Awesome. RT @motherfuton: Priceless:...

Jun 12th

ipython is one of the coolest things ever. I have been using it for a while but didn’t realize...

Jun 12th

RT @elliottkember: So here goes: Blocky (http://blocky.elliottkember.com) is an app for...

Jun 11th

Google Quick Search Box is about the coolest app I’ve seen for a while.

Jun 11th

RT @azaaza: What Wikipedia looks like, printed as a book. Doubles as a chair. http://bit.ly/pRhVj

Jun 11th

RT @google: Meet the Street View trike. Coming to a hiking or biking trail near you...

Jun 11th

This CSV file is only 87 MB and ooffice is having trouble opening it…

Jun 11th

Interesting site for lazy conscience-free students: http://www.corrupted-files.com/Word.html (link...

Jun 10th

Going to go sail the duck dodge tonight, if all goes well. I lack a pirate costume. :-(...

Jun 10th

RT @motherfuton: It may be too bold a statement, but if you’re not using MVC you’re...

Jun 10th

Added support for tab completion of units in my python / libreadline wrapper for frink. It’s...

Jun 10th

This is weird, there’s an apple event, and twitter appears to be working correctly. What...

Jun 9th

Mail, iCal, and Address Book now support Exchange?!! God I hope this works well.

Jun 9th

Still no iTablet, eh?

Jun 9th

RT @dalmaer: iPhone 3Gs is cool and all, but the fine print? For the big daddy (32GB) $700 for...

Jun 9th

RT @overtfascist: I suggest R be renamed to RaRr (RaRr an R-project rename). It could have a sweet...

Jun 9th

“Find My Phone” feature sounds incredibly dangerous and prone to hackage.

Jun 9th

RT @mubix: New iPhone has the ability to send it a “message” that will completely wipe...

Jun 9th

This is probably the coolest thing on my phone right now: http://bit.ly/zbdY5

Jun 9th

RT @wigu: There is a new http://overcompensating.com/ about LCD Billboards.

Jun 9th

Google’s PageSpeed plugin opens my eyes to a whole new level of page optimization....

Jun 5th

Just watched a couple of moth videos. HOLY FUCK I WANT TO SAIL THAT BOAT. http://bit.ly/T4iI...

Jun 5th

Sometimes I click “retweet” when really I just want to add a favourite. Any clients that...

Jun 4th

Cool stuff. RT @google: Yes, it’s true. Google Squared is now live — try it out for...

Jun 4th

RT @kebernet: HOWTO: Add JavaScript to a Web Page Programmatically:...

Jun 4th

http://twitpic.com/6huhz - 2009-05-30 11.33.55.jpg

Jun 3rd

Those were a few photos from Saturday — sadly it appears the lens on my phone was a bit...

Jun 3rd

http://twitpic.com/6hufu - 2009-05-30 11.33.45.jpg

Jun 3rd

RT @wigu: help @pzmyers crash this hateful, dickish, pointless poll http://tinyurl.com/p5932w

Jun 3rd

RT @arielwaldman: @iamjem that should read “Destroying the English language, one retweet and...

Jun 3rd

http://twitpic.com/6huff - 2009-05-30 11.33.27.jpg

Jun 3rd

I can’t stand it when people (especially smart ones) mix up homonyms.

Jun 3rd

2009-05-30 11.33.27

Jun 3rd

2009-05-30 11.33.45

Jun 3rd

2009-05-30 11.33.55

Jun 3rd

RT @azaaza: Teach a man to phish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Jun 2nd

Do you suppose this whole spymaster thing will lead to clients with a regex-exclude feature? Because...

Jun 2nd

Had an incredibly long tiring weekend sailing down to Ballard from Bellingham. It was fun, but...

Jun 1st