Archive / RSS

Stuff and things

Calum writes things of questionable importance here.

Dec 11

“ The good news are you really do not need general “quality” or “being free from bugs” to run MySQL in production.

— I know what Peter Zaitsev meant by this, but this is a pretty sorry line for anyone to have to say

Dec 05

» Amazon MP3 UK

Hurrah!

Nov 23

“ No matter how P might perform, Q will scoop it:
Q uses P’s output to make P look stupid.
Whatever P says, it cannot predict Q:
P is right when it’s wrong, and is false when it’s true!

— The halting problem explained in poem

Nov 17

Barack Obama gets asked a computer science question. Apologies if this is old news but it’s new to me darn it.

Nov 04

Seriously I have no idea.

Nov 03

“ Justice says their goal was “to open a debate, raise questions, something done regularly by cinema, literature and contemporary art.” Yet YouTube is unlike any of those other media. There is no buying your ticket, no shifting in your seat with popcorn in hand; no stiff new book to crack open; no grappling with an artist’s meaning in solemn galleries. Framed by neither the walls of a cinema or museum, nor the written page, YouTube is a kind of non-context, an ether from which one draws images designed for rapid, repeated consumption. Content of great value mixes with bullies terrorizing their classmates, public flatulence and some six-year-old’s piano recital.

— TIME, in their article on Justice’s video for Stress

Oct 31

“ Mere days from assuming the presidency and closing the door on eight years of Bill Clinton, president-elect George W. Bush assured the nation in a televised address Tuesday that “our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over.

— This joke article which appeared on The Onion when Bush came into office has turned out to be depressingly accurate in a lot of respects.

Oct 30

» ZX Spectrum emulator in JavaScript

This would be awesome if my computer wasn’t a relic from mere months after the Spectrum itself. I need to get the +2 I have in the cupboard working.

Oct 27

“ So, in conclusion, the Scala compiler is like a little alien prince that rolls around on a giant ball picking up cakes.

— DRMacIver on #scala

If you laugh at Lambdacats, congratulations, you are as nerdy and humourless as me ;)