A friend of mine once said that there are problems and there are difficulties. A problem is something you savor. You say, “Well that’s an interesting problem. Let me think about that problem a while.” You enjoy thinking about it, because when you find the solution to the problem, it’s enlightening.
And then there are difficulties. […]
I reach for my metrocard. You gotta be kiddin’ me. Pat pat, pat pat.
Oh shit.
It’s gone. My wallet.
The Jamaican mama occupying the ticket booth must have cottonballs up her ears, she takes so long to respond to my plea for help. When I tell her my wallet is missing, she barely hides her irritation; Don’ […]
I wrote a blog entry a while ago on setting up the Canon Pixma MP500 on linux. Well, I upgraded CUPS, and everything went to shizzle. It just stopped working, with no obvious explanation.
Tracing back through my original frustrations, I remembered that the single most vexing problem was that of the user running the CUPS […]
On my whiteboard:
Religious Hatred => How do we determine which thought to respect?
Half-erased, it’s been sitting there since I read a Harper’s article on the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy more than a year ago. The essence of the question I intended to explore was, what are the criteria for thoughts and beliefs we should respect? […]
I’ve been working on webaddressbook’s heretofore unannounced contact synchronization feature recently, and ran into a grindingly bad problem today trying to parse Gmail’s contact export CSV file.
According to Gmail, their format is better than the Outlook format because it allows you to preserve different character encodings.
Gmail CSV (for import into another Gmail account): formats your […]
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