Category: General

Hey – I got my first cease and desist letter today. I feel just like a real publisher now. Be careful who you offend companies. Your customers are connected and empowered these days. Although I have to say Chilling Effects doesn’t have the breadth of content to deal with these things that I thought they…

I only have 57 minutes left to decide whether I want to take advantage of the Cuisinart Automatic Ice Cream Maker offered in my amazon gold box. I have thought about getting an ice cream maker, in fact I think I even went so far as adding this very one to my wishlist a while…

How much does Quicken 2003 for the Mac suck? |———————This F*cking Much———————-| I upgraded to this piece of crap 2 months ago, and since then it’s been nothing but one corrupted account after another. I have years of financial records, and this is just turning them to swiss cheese. Here’s a thought Intuit: Don’t screw…

Cool. It looks like the fountain of youth isn’t in Florida, but right here in my own backyard. I give you the the Integratron. Now don’t go hogging all of the cell rejuvenating harmonic waves. I needs to get me some of that anti-aging mojo too you know. Truthfully, I have sort of wanted to…

Anybody know if there is a way to solve for X and Y in this equation without resorting to random substitution? X^2 – Y^2 = 45 Please show your work kids.

Gary Shapiro speaks The Truth To make downloading immoral, you have to accept that copyrighted products are governed by the same moral and legal principles as real property, thus the recent and continuous reference by the copyright community to label downloading as stealing. But the fact is that real and intellectual property are different and…

Last week, I invited everybody to as me a question. Surprisingly, I was actually asked more questions off-line than on-line. I shall now attempt to answer all of them. more…

I’ll be taking a mini-blogging break for the next week or so. I may post if I come across something too grand to ignore, but mostly don’t expect much until late next week. In the mean time, feel free to: Ask Me A Question! Make it interesting, make it hard to answer, and I will…

I think I know some programmers Like This. Actually, I’m sure that I do. Funny, funny stuff. Link courtesy of Dan Hersam.

Why do we divide the total of the squared deviations by n-1, rather than n? Recall that the sum of the deviations is known to be zero, so given the first n-1 deviations, we can always calculate the remaining deviation. This means only n-1 of the deviations can vary freely — the last value is…