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I am so horrified by the news out of New Orleans. That said, let this be a lesson on how rapidly civilization itself can collapse. So far as I can see, the fundamentals of society have gone bye bye in that city. There are reports of armed gangs of rapists roaming the streets, people shooting . . . → Read More: NOLA So far as CNN is willing to tell me, there’s a sniper firing on the patients being evacuated from the New Orleans hospital, and the Superdome is on fire. That’ll teach ’em. Think it might be useful to have the National Guard around? I have no idea whether the current deployment in Iraq is . . . → Read More: Snipers too? The Onion has finally put the majority of their archive back online. I am strangely drawn to “WASHINGTON, DC–Mere days from assuming the presidency and closing the door on eight years of Bill Clinton, president-elect George W. Bush assured the nation in a televised address Tuesday that “our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity . . . → Read More: Only one of these news items was meant as humor… My cat stares, fixed gaze At the space under the fridge Do I want to know? Update on the debugging: We’ve traced it to a spontaneous reboot. Not a process dying, but a reboot. That’s different. The damn machines are rebooting at random intervals once we get them fully loaded. They die suddenly, with no message in the log files. When they come back, the only message to indicate why they . . . → Read More: Rasa-farkity-debug-dumb-code! Running a stupid test, on a stupid cluster, to flush out a stupid non-repeatable error, so that we can fix it. Basically, the damn thing dies “every now and then” with no discernible stimulus. Wrote up a crap-tastic test suite to stress each of the following factors in turn: Network, CPU, disk reads, disk writes, . . . → Read More: Die die die! My brother is starting college tomorrow. Moving into a dorm in Maryland. Out into the world. Sadly, all the serious truths that I would share are of the form “self evident once you know them, and meaningless if you don’t.” I mean, seriously, you can tell an 18 year old to floss, but until you . . . → Read More: Good times You know, the NWS isn’t quite ready to say “the vengeful hand of God is about to scour New Orleans from the face of the earth,” but it’s pretty close: . . . → Read More: Hurricane Just watched the Battlestar Galactica miniseries (the new one, from 2003), and it’s remarkably good. The reworked human/cylon thing is very good … and the subtle touches like the fact that the Cylons believe in God really make it work. The Luddite angle (all the newfangled ships got eaten alive, while the old ones weren’t . . . → Read More: Galactica |
