Category Archives: neep-neep

scenic rout

Took a spin up Skyline today (so my One True Ex could “look at trees”), and chanced to find Los Altos Rod & Gun Club. Guess I know what we’re doing next Sunday. (Later: Still haven’t.)

Posted in California, neep-neep | Leave a comment

how many bits are enough?

I wonder whether Hollywood digital visual effects use standard 24-bit color or something fancier.

Posted in neep-neep | Leave a comment

how sane!

Why aren’t more servers this clever? The document name you requested (/archive/wc99.gif) could not be found on this server. However, we found documents with names similar to the one you requested. Available documents: /archive/wc099.gif (character missing) /archive/wc199.gif (character missing) /archive/wc299.gif … Continue reading

Posted in neep-neep | Leave a comment

one-third as forgetful as before

Help! I bought more memory for my computer, but the BIOS seems unhappy with it. Is there a switch somewhere on the motherboard (Asus K7M) that I have to flip? Later: So I called the shop that built it. (Oddly, … Continue reading

Posted in neep-neep | Leave a comment

backward compatibility

Since I last looked, Richard Bennett has taken down the insulting “I don’t do Netscape 4” page. Good boy. (I primarily use 4.79 because 6.2.2 is much less graceful in handling mail and bookmarks.)

Posted in neep-neep | Leave a comment

wanted: abstract plumber

Joel [Spolsky] on Software – The Law of Leaky Abstractions means that whenever somebody comes up with a wizzy new code-generation tool that is supposed to make us all ever-so-efficient, you hear a lot of people saying “learn how to … Continue reading

Posted in neep-neep | Leave a comment

the virtue of crudity

In Praise of Evolvable Systems: Why something as poorly designed as the Web became The Next Big Thing, and what that means for the future. (Thanks to Joel Levin for the link)

Posted in neep-neep | 1 Comment