FSlint is a utility to find and clean various forms of lint on a filesystem. I.E. unwanted or problematic cruft in your files or file names. For example, one form of fslint it finds is duplicate files. The name is based on the common practice of calling programs that do strict warning/error checking of source code “lint”. lint programs are used to find potential problems in your source code the compiler might miss. Likewise, fslint looks for files you may not want, but are not a problem for the filesystem. Read on…
I ordinarily wouldn’t post about this sort of thing unless I had something to add, and I do. We had some relatives over this weekend, and we needed to go to the mall to get something. We really feared the worst. Not only was traffic almost normal for a Saturday, but parking wasn’t too bad, and the mall itself wasn’t very crowded. Read on…
I was Team Lead of a Software Engineering group at Aptima. Been there for about 3½ years. It’s a very cool company in a lot of ways, because there was a lot of scientific researchy stuff going on there. Mostly human factors, performance assessment, training, organizational and team design, modeling, and predictions. My group was the Presentation, Web, and Language Engineering group, so many of my projects required natural language processing, metadata analysis, extraction, and transformation, and web/web service interfaces. Read on…
Incomplete, but very funny illustrations for the HTTP error codes, on Flickr. I wish they did some of the “Access Denied” kind, but this is a good start. The account owner, Ape Lad, has other entertaining illustrations, including An Alphabetical Listing of Nonsensical Monstrosities.
Speaking of funnly illustrations, further wandering through the Internet’s tubes uncovered tofuttibreak on tumbrl, YABH (Yet Another Blog Host). My favorites so far are this one and this one and this one.
I found this thread in Stack Overflow asking for everyone’s favorite Programmer’s joke. There are quite a few good ones in there.
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