Looks like Google just changed the design of their website. I think I like the old one better, but maybe it will grow on me.
Oh, and by the way, this is post number 200 for this blog. I’ve been posting much more frequently since switching to Movable Type.
Man, what a waste of a weekend. I ended-up missing a big poker tournament to install new brakes on the Accord, and I only finished the rear brakes! For some reason, I started with the rear brakes, knowing they would be harder because I’ve never worked on them before. I still have a lot of homework to do as well, and I’m not even finished with the brakes.
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The Trunkmonkey is a car accessory which I think I’m going to have to install. I wonder if they have a motorcycle version too?
This is hilarious.. even my dog was looking at me funny because I was laughing so hard.
Apparently the 2004 Pontiac Grand Prix has a glitch which completely hoses up the calendar display because they forgot 2004 is a leap year.
What day is it? Don’t ask the driver of General Motors Corp.’s Pontiac Grand Prix.
Due to a software glitch, the computer display in the 2004 model year Grand Prix shows the wrong day of the week, Pontiac spokesman Jim Hopson said on Monday. Engineers overlooked the fact that 2004 is a leap year, with an extra day,
“Somehow or other, the fact that this was a leap year got missed,” Hopson said. “We are working on a solution.”
This is a pretty standard date calculation in a modern language, so they must be using something pretty low level. After having to do date/time work in 1st and 2nd generation languages for college classes, it totally sucks if you’re used to a 3rd generation language which does all of this work for you.
Somehow, a guy dressed as Sherlock Holmes is stealing cars at car dealerships in Sydney Australia
The man, wearing a deerstalker hat like Arthur Conan-Doyle’s fictional hero, stole a £20,000 Toyota Previa from a showroom in Coulsdon, Surrey.
He pretended to be buying a fleet of cars for an operation involving Scotland Yard and MI5.
That kills me. Apparently salespeople can con people, but have no clue when they are being conned themselves.
This has been cracking me up.. now I feel like I need to dig out the DVD and give it a spin again soon…
Here is a really great interview in which Quentin Tarantino discusses many of his references in Kill Bill.
Hi, I’m Tomohiro Machiyama. I usually write only for Japanese Magazines, but I would like you people who cannot read Japanese to read my interview because Mr. Tarantino told me a lot of information that American critics and viewers might never know. The night before this interview, I first spoke with Tarantino at a party after the screening of Kill Bill. Unfortunately, I didn’t bring my tape recorder. We were both totally smashed, but I remember these things he told me.
This afternoon I’ve been checking out some JDBC drivers from one of our database vendors, and once I finally got them working in ColdFusion MX, I kept getting a “String index out of range” error, even on very simple queries. After playing around with the query for a bit, I realized it had something to do with whitespace and/or carriage returns within the query string itself. I’ve notified our DBA team to file a bug with the vendor, but it was something that took some specific Googling to figure out.
This is mostly just a post to file away in the archives– hopefully it will help someone in the future with JDBC problems.
As I’m slowly getting closer and closer to finishing my Computer Science degree, I’ve started to look at the possibility of going to grad school. I’d really like to learn some advanced topics in Computer Science such as Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Compiler Theory / Construction, Operating System Design, and even perhaps I’d find some Embedded Systems related work interesting. Hopefully I can keep my GPA up in order to purse this!
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Being that I’m getting ready to install the 7.01 update to Dreamweaver MX 2004, I figured I’d better back-up its configuration before applying the update. I’ve used DW-Exporter for this in the past, and it looks like it has been renamed to MM-Exporter. The name change was warranted– it looks to support all of the Macromedia Studio MX products now. Not only does it work well, but it’s freeware. Good stuff.