Category Archives: me!me!me!

1337 unix skilz

I’ve just written my first cron job, to sort my Mozilla bookmarks by last access (since Moz won’t do it properly). Seems to work. Woohoo! I learned just enough from the Llama Book to do it crudely, but not enough … Continue reading

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yah-oops

Ah, hell. Suddenly my Yahoo password doesn’t work, and I can’t recover it — because I never told Yahoo my true birthdate, and of course I’ve long forgotten whatever bogus birthdate I filled in way back when. I much prefer … Continue reading

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you click me! you really click me!

Traffic on this site is heavier this month than in the previous eleven, with a spike on August 19 which seems to be a fluke. Later: September was heavier still. I hope it’s not just me.

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where do you see yourself in ten years?

Have I mentioned lately that I hate applying for jobs? They ask you to send a résumé. Then once they have it, they call you back and ask, “So what kind of position are you looking for?” because somehow their … Continue reading

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can the disco ball be improved?

This site has a new page, comparing three algorithms for packing nodes on a sphere. Comments invited. It’s the first time I’ve used a table in HTML! 480 12.869074 14.172741 16.211562

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wish I could help

Someone recently found my mathematical doodles page by searching for analemma golden ratio. I hope the visitor was enlightened, but as far as I know there’s no relation between the golden ratio and the analemma!

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$2.56 and counting

Subject: The Concept of a Meta-Font Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 03:18:42 -0700 From: Anton Sherwood To: knuth-bug Digital Typography page 312, near the middle of note [11] 759,499,667,966,482 [ = 2 * 19 * 3717809 * 5375971 ] should … Continue reading

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