Yahoo announced this week that they’re going to reorg into three operating units. Some folks felt that they should reorg their dating in a similar manner to align synergies. From the Craigslist post: In order to maximize effectiveness for the upcoming holiday party, we have decided to restructure our organization into three major operating groups,…
Windows Vista, now with nagging
Thank $DEITY that we have people like Gordon who will enter their password into any old dialog box! MacOs has a similar feature, but at least it’s smart.
Oh no! Revenge of the nerds remake cancelled!
Revenge of the nerds remake cancelled because the College it was being shot at didn’t want to be associated with the project any more. Who would have thought that a College would have problems being associated with a movie about putting hidden video cameras in the women’s bathroom?
Solar panel reflection effects in satellite imagery
Google Blogoscoped has an interesting pointer to a star effect on a Google Earth satellite image. Apparently the consensus is that its the sun reflecting off a solar panel, but it’s still nice.
We’re 80% complete. If only we could get the code to compile we would be done!
The progress reports on an old Microsoft project indicated near completion, if only they could get the code to compile.
Book status
I was thinking about the delivery status of the MythTV book as I was going off to sleep last night, and it occurred to me that the book is pretty much done. It’s a good feeling. Stewart needs to finish poking a chapter on cut lists and so forth, with should be minimal effort, then…
Please report to the municipal hall of justice
Catherine rang me while I was at work yesterday to let me know that I had a letter from the courthouse in Santa Clara country demanding (it doesn’t make it sound all that optional) that I attend at the “Municipal Hall of Justice” for jury duty. Yes, they really called it that. Yes, I thought…
MySQL Camp
Kynan and I came along to the MySQL camp, and thru a quirk of fate pretty much ended up running it (the person who was meant to be running it got injured on the first day and had to go off to hospital). In return we wrote the Google Code blog post about the event….
Getting Google Talk working with PyXMPP
Jacek Konieczny has written the wholly fantabulous PyXMPP, which implements Jabber clients and servers in Python. Now, Google Talk is a Jabber server, but it needs TLS support before it works. The code is all there, but the echobot example in the download (look in the examples directory) doesn’t show you how. It’s not that…
Oh, and no affection of SouthWest flights!
(Yes, I’m catching up on CNN this morning, I have a headache, and it seemed like a good plan at the time). Clearly SouthWest want to be the only ones screwing their customers, don’t you dare rest your head on your wife because that’s a Federal offence they will pursue.