Doop de doo...

Nov 7

Insane tests

a thought: often, we programmers put sanity checks in our more complex tests to make sure the tests are doing what we expect them to (effectively: testing the tests). One should then expect that there is a class of, technically, insane tests (those failing their sanity checks).
and this has made my day.

Broadcast 2000

Delightful: http://hypem.com/track/600457/Broadcast+2000-GET+UP+AND+GO
Clever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKSec0k53qg
And very, very pretty: http://vimeo.com/2050356

Oct 25

I love space.

Oct 22

via http://blog.sub-studio.com/

Oct 2

“Now we all know Gov. Palin has a lot of foreign policy experience because from Alaska, she can see Russia. More to the point, Russia is on the other side of the international dateline from Alaska. It’s tomorrow there. So when Palin looks at it, she’s actually seeing the future.” Stephen Colbert

“

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Jul 22

100 Billion Dollar banknote.

Zimbabwe has introduced a 100-Billion-Dollar banknote, in response to an official inflation rate of 2,200,000%. That’s a lot, and is surely destroying the nation, but a billion dollar note’s gotta be a bit impressive. Can anyone find an image of it? Search though I may, the internets seem to be failing.

Jul 13

Most Unhelpful Error Message, Evar.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./httpmr/driver.py", line 407, in 
    main()
  File "./httpmr/driver.py", line 403, in main
    driver.Run()
  File "./httpmr/driver.py", line 266, in Run
    self._Map()
  File "./httpmr/driver.py", line 277, in _Map
    self._LaunchPhase(MAP_MASTER_TASK_NAME, self._AllMapOperationsComplete)
  File "./httpmr/driver.py", line 311, in _LaunchPhase
    base_urls = self._GetInitialUrls(phase_task_name)
  File "./httpmr/driver.py", line 326, in _GetInitialUrls
    html = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 121, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 380, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 491, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 418, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 353, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 499, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 500: Dude, this is whack!

Jul 8

My movement in the USA (January 1 - July 8, 2008)

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My movement in Portland (January 1 - July 8, 2008)

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