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Archive for February, 2007

The Copy And Paste Programmer

2 Things happened yesterday that prompted this article. They were unrelated, but had a strong connection.
Part 1 - Digg Story
Yesterday Digg, a site almost as popular as this one, featured a story on the front page titled ‘why can’t programmers… program’. The linked article, that most Digg readers probably failed to read, discussed employers frustration [...]

Star Trek XI May Not Suck

Well, after the cinematic abortions that were the last two Star Trek films (okay, Nemesis was alright, but it was a rehash of Star Trek 2), many fans of the series assumed that the franchise’s film days were over. For that matter, most of us assumed that all the franchise’s days were over after [...]

Quantum Weirdness, In Cartoon Form

I just got a link to this really cool video explaining quantum superposition and the famous double-slit experiment quite clearly.
I’ve long been fascinated with advanced math and physics, especially quantum physics, although I never got the chance to study it in school. I even went so far as to buy and try to read [...]

Windows Calc.exe Denial of Service Attack

I couldn’t find this interesting bit of behavior documented anywhere on the Internets, so I figured I’d share. Virtual Server is a Microsoft product that is basically just Virtual PC for server operating systems, and allows you to connect to your virtual machines from any workstation on your network. This is all [...]

Shadow of the Colossus — Still Amazing

Just thought I’d point out that Shadow of the Colossus is the featured article on Wikipedia today.  Shadow of the Colossus is an amazing game that still takes my breath away every time I play it.

The wikipedia article is really informative as well, and it pointed out some things I’ve never noticed before, e.g. Wander’s [...]

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