iPhone Updates
It seems that (a) Apple is pissed at Rogers data plans and is limiting its shipments of iPhones to Canada as a result, and (b) Rogers will let you buy an iPhone on your existing plan, without a data plan. Now, *I* would think that you would have to pay a higher price for the iPhone, since Rogers is subsidizing them with their onerous data plans, but Sergey says that you will still be able to pay the $200/$300 prices. We will see, I suppose. P.S. This is a “blog post” submitted via ping.fm , and I’m curious how it will look.. P.P.S. This is a second attempt. Hope I can delete the first one from LiveJournal..Moments in Time
Posted by rae in family
at 1:39 pm on Wednesday, 25 June 2008
This week marks Ronnie and Michael’s respective graduations.
Ronnie from Grade 8, Michael from Grade 12.
Next year they both head out to new schools, and both of them will be taking the TTC instead of walking to school.
They’ll both be in classes with completely new people, almost all of whom they don’t know.
This week was the last time both of them will be seeing many of their schoolmates.
And yet, they’re both somewhat unaware of all this.
Luisa
mentioned Michael’s reaction,
and Ronnie’s — although perhaps a bit more elequent — hasn’t been much different.
I suppose it’s often the case that you can be unaware of some large changes when they resemble other, smaller changes that have gone before.
Ronnie and Michael are used to starting summer vacation.
It’s the end of that vacation that will really be different.
at 1:39 pm on Wednesday, 25 June 2008
“Southland Tales”
My favorite comment on the new hi-res galactic snapshot
Posted by rae in General
at 9:30 am on Wednesday, 4 June 2008
at 9:30 am on Wednesday, 4 June 2008
“two minor spiral arms of the Milky Way may be demoted.” I suspected something like this might happen, I just didn’t dream that they’d go so far. I mean, you have to be just a little suspicious about whether all star-forming arms are on an equal footing when you look at the names. There’s Perseus and Sagittarius. Then we get to Scutum-Centaurus, and you have to wonder if the astronomers needed a leg up in the imagination department. And then all doubt vanishes when we get to the fourth arm…Norma. Yes, Norma. Like the girl who couldn’t wait to get old enough to disown her parents, legally change her name to Chantal and get a job at the brass-pole ballet. You just had to know they were having their doubts about arm number 4. On a more positive note, the same bunch of guys who just slammed Scutum-Centaurus and, um, “Norma”, are also telling us that they “obtained detailed information about our galaxy’s bar, and found that it extends farther out from the centre of the galaxy than previously thought”. A bar that’s closer to the house than you thought can’t be a bad thing. Especially when you need to walk home. – I’ve calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Firefox Download Day 2008
Posted by rae in General
at 10:24 am on Thursday, 29 May 2008
at 10:24 am on Thursday, 29 May 2008
And download Firefox 3 on the day it comes out!
Trying out “Disqus” for comments
Posted by rae in General
at 12:51 pm on Monday, 26 May 2008
at 12:51 pm on Monday, 26 May 2008
gdb_stl_utils for Mac OS X
Posted by rae in development
at 2:31 pm on Thursday, 15 May 2008
Oh ya, this will have a wide audience..
There’s a very useful little utility for debugging
STL
under
gdb,
and it’s called
gdb_stl_utils.
However, the Makefile that comes with it doesn’t account for multiple architectures like Intel/PPC on the Mac. So I updated the Makefile and posted the whole thing on
clith.com/gdb_stl_utils.
I’ve mailed the new Makefile to
the person who most recently updated it
in hopes of helping others use this very useful tool.
at 2:31 pm on Thursday, 15 May 2008
GeForce 8800 GT in my Mac Pro lets me run Windows games again!
Posted by rae in General
at 11:42 am on Monday, 12 May 2008
at 11:42 am on Monday, 12 May 2008
Most Romantic Books
Posted by rae in General
at 1:46 pm on Wednesday, 7 May 2008
Not sure how I got there, but
this page
has a list of people saying what their favorite romantic books are.
A quick Perl script later, and here are the top books with the number of people on that page that mentioned them:
at 1:46 pm on Wednesday, 7 May 2008
So there you go.
15 Gone With the Wind 15 The Bridges of Madison County 12 The Thorn Birds 11 The Notebook 8 Outlander 5 Wuthering Heights 3 A Knight in Shining Armor 3 Jane Eyre 3 Pride and Prejudice 3 Whitney, My Love 2 A Farewell to Arms 2 A Town Like Alice 2 Cyrano de Bergerac 2 Five Smooth Stones 2 Green Mansions 2 Joy in the Morning 2 Katherine 2 Love Story 2 Rebecca 2 The Flame and the Flower
Iron Man
Posted by rae in entertainment
at 12:52 am on Wednesday, 7 May 2008
I went to see Iron Man on Thursday, the day before the erstwhile opening day.
With me were Andy, Jeff K and Craig.
Overall, it was quite a fun movie, which required the usual comic-book suspension of disbelief.
A quick explanation of why Tony Stark was able to ignore inertia would have been nice.
“Engage inertial dampeners” would have sufficed.
Definitely recommended.
I certainly enjoyed it enough to go see it again on Saturday with Luisa and Ronnie.
(Ronnie had piano practice on Thursday night)
at 12:52 am on Wednesday, 7 May 2008