Spam :-(
I was lately inundated by spam comments. I was getting literally dozens of spam comments a day, and the number was ever growing. Requiring users to log in did not […]
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Sun Java update – WTF?
I had a “Java update available” icon on my task bar for a while. Finally I decided to install it. I thought it would be something like a service pack […]
Liza Minelli (not computer related)
We went to the “Liza in the Palace” concert today, which is a four-week series of Minelli concerts on Broadway. What can I say… I’ve got mixed impressions from this […]
Visual Studio 2010 CTP
I finally got to download it. Well I TRIED to download it. It is amazing. I wonder, if they wanted to make it more difficult, would it be possible? First, […]
Quirks of .NET DateTime type
It looks like subtracting dates in .NET is done purely mechanically, ignoring such subtleties as time zones or daylight savings time. In particular, the UTC flag is ignored when subtracting […]
F#: Must fully qualify class members, even inside the class
It is not the end of the world, but somewhat annoying: class members must always be referred by their fully qualified name, even inside class methods: type Foo = class […]
Boolean operations in F#: spec gone bad
The F# language specification does not talk much about Boolean operations, but it does say that ~~~ is op_LogicalNot and &&& is a “bitwise and”, also called land. The && […]
The Spiral of Progress, or All New Is Actually a Thoroughly Forgotten Old
I am reading a book on WPF (“Programming WPF” by Chris Sells if you want to know), and it says that storing “behavior” and “look” in two different places is […]
My hard drive is fried
My old 80GB Maxtor D740X-6L is kaput. He was 6 years and 4 months old. May he rest in peace.
Original XP install CD does not understand SP2 NTFS partition
My computer crashed today and would not reboot. I.e. windows starts booting and then says it cannot find c:windowssystem32configsystem file. It suggested to boot from the install CD and use […]