A New Personal Record
March 11, 2020
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I’ve noticed over the years I’ve spent programming that there’s a counter-intuitive metric for how well your architecture matches the problem you’re trying to solve
Category: Reflections
Buddy Can You Spare a Few Bytes?
May 7, 2019
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Another day in the Maelstrom of Badly Designed Software, this time involving not just an operating system function but also boot firmware. Geez, if you
Keeping It Alive
June 16, 2016
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I posted this on nVidia’s support forum, but felt it worth perpetuating somewhere else. === I was greatly relieved to see how nVidia is doing
Into the Wayback Machine
June 2, 2016
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My buddy Connell runs an election/campaign advisory firm. He has a database that he uses to track voter profiles, create outreach lists, and the like.
“Please Contact Windows”
June 18, 2015
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I’m a long-time user of the Adobe Creative Suite. So I’m more familiar with Adobe software than I’d like to be…because it is generally insanely
Murphy’s Law
April 24, 2015
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Okay, deep breath. I’m going to write about this because, well, it is funny, in a dark, ironic way. At least now that a few
Less Noise Is Good News
August 10, 2013
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In preparation for moving to a new home I’ve been going through my stash of surplus motherboards, hard drives, etc., and getting them ready to
Sometimes a Mind Wipe Helps
March 4, 2013
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The other day the system drive — the one containing Windows and all my programs — died unexpectedly. As in, I didn’t have a backup
Tick…Tick…Tick
February 7, 2013
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I managed to dodge a bullet today. One of the hard drives in my main desktop system has been ticking for several months now. The
Good Samaritans Do Exist
November 11, 2012
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Actually, when you stop and think about it, there are far more decent people in the world than jerks. It’s just that the actions of
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