Long time readers will be thrilled to know: Last Friday, my poor dressing skills finally took me where no man has gone before.
Inside out and backwards.
My excuse this time was the wicked combination of:
1. A whole bottle of a Cab. Merlot, combined with:
2. The dizzy hi-jinx of Breakdance!
Shamone.
Despite the avalanche of critism, I think Google Video is good for something.
Funny cat videos for instance.
On Friday night I rediscovered an old favourite movie – Breakdance (imdb link). I purchased this in a bargain bin about 12 months ago for the princely sum of $5.
Breakdance is the story of a young woman, Kelly, whose world of Jazz Ballet, legwarmers, pink spandex, and a day job in a down-market LA [...]
“Why the Nintedo DS owns” on
Ever get that feeling that you will do the same thing again in the future?
That your experience now is an echo of some future event.
Weird. It must be the flu or something. But I’m sure I’ve had this feeling before…
Intel ad from Apple
To quote Slashdot:
I felt something, a disturbance in the network, as if a million mac zealots cried out in horror and were suddenly silenced.
I almost died laughing. Here’s a teaser:
Meanwhile, Nintendo has once again drawn controversy by announcing that its upcoming console, the Nintendo Apocalypse, will lack any sort of game controller whatsoever. Instead, you will direct the onscreen action by grabbing a household pet by the front legs and “making it do a little dance.”
wired.com
I stand corrected.
EMI’s copy protection does not work on the Mac. The shift key, as suggested by The Diving Swan, is not even required. What is required is fast hand and nerves of steel. I developed the following method over the last few days:
1. With iTunes closed, enter copy protected CD. iTunes will now start [...]
Having just purchased a CD version of “Solid Gold Hits”, I was dismayed to find out that EMI has made this CD “Copy Controlled”, so I cannot easily listen to this music - that I just paid for - on my iPod.
I’m annoyed for two reasons:
This is the first time some kind of [...]
In an effort to add cheap content, I’m recycling old stuff. Huzzah!
Anyway, here’s my short Amazon review of “Expert C Programming” By Peter Van Der Linden. I’m particularly proud of my analogy between Spanish art history and computer programming.
It is still a useful book. How? One example: every C/C++ programming test (for the purposes of [...]