According to the Daily News, Columbia University is nothing but an orgy (of liberalism, no doubt) disguised as a university. Why then a photo Chris Kulawik, a poster-boy for sexlessness? Perhaps because they are all talk and no action?
November 26, 2006
November 14, 2006
GOP
The GOP doesn’t care about black people, unless those black people happen to be voters, and they also happen to be easily duped.
Wingnuts!
Yes, there are plenty of wingnuts on the right. Anthrax hoaxing however is an unusual hobby for them (most stick to blogging.)
November 9, 2006
November 4, 2006
Latency & Crystal WDM
If you own a Dell laptop computer and you are a musician, you’ve probably run into latency issues on the built-in Crystal audio cards. Most recently I was getting 46ms of latency out of my machine. This makes live performance pretty difficult, you need to get that latency below 15ms if it’s going to feel at all live and responsive. Luckily a bright programmer has written a an ASIO driver for Crystal WDM. It’s called ASIO4ALL and you can download it from the author’s site.
October 30, 2006
Finding The Fall
Find every former member of the band The Fall. Not a trivial task for a band that has had 40-odd members over its 30 year existence.
October 23, 2006
Biggest Computer Flops
Top 10 biggest flops in computing. The story about CP/M stretches credibility – anybody have any idea whether it is true or not?
October 21, 2006
Gode Cookery
Gode Cookery is one of those sites that makes me glad there is an Internet. The site is dedicated to medieval cooking and translating the recipes to the modern kitchen. Knowing how people ate hundreds of years ago goes a long way to understanding how they lived.
October 15, 2006
Friendster’s Failure
TechCrunch has an interesting piece on why Friendster failed where MySpace succeeded. I think the notion that Friendster’s bad architecture problem had a lot to do with it. Yes, it did suck and it was quite slow. However, look at MySpace – built on ColdFusion with significant failures of various functions. In my experience the site is ridden with bad code that doesn’t scale and lots of errors. The difference seems to me to have a lot to do with the basic point of the site. Friendster’s is a ‘who you know’ site, where MySpace is a ‘what you like’ kind of site. It’s just an impression, but Friendster networks are based more on actual real-world relationships, while MySpace networks seem to be based on common interests in music (particularly), sex, and film.
Bush has nothing to say, no plan
Check out this article from U.S. News, and this great quote (referring to the most recent White House press conference:)
“He had nothing to say at the press conference,” says a prominent GOP insider. “My question is, why call it?”