Good: When translating your native language into another, might I suggest at least running the results back in to your language as a sanity check?
Better: Have someone else that knows a little more about the language than you take a look at it.
Best: Don’t take jobs that you know nothing about.
By the way, the English should have said cafeteria, or even restaurant. Visit Engrish.com for tons of funny pictures like this.
…than normal when you see a police car, you should change the way you drive.
The Ides of March.
Oh, and guitar hero hand. I played for five hours yesterday and my hand is sore. I’ll have some serious kungfu action grip when I beat this game though…
I just finished reading
It’s spelled dais, not dias.
That word must have appeared 20 times in this book, and every instance was spelled wrong. This third book is the first one I’ve run across of yours that had spelling errors, and this wasn’t the only one. Get a better editor, or get a better spellchecker dude.
We got our first real snow last night. Along with it, most of the people in this area forgot how to drive.
Or perhaps they never knew how to in the first place…
Drive slower, people! You are not immune to ice because you have 4 wheel drive or snowtires.
Don’t try to search for auction on the internet—you probably won’t find what you’re looking for.
I just want to make a public announcement here. If you want to tailgate me when I’m going over the speed limit and faster than the flow of traffic, I will become your worst nightmare.
On my way to work a lady in a blue SUV was tailgating me—to the point where I couldn’t see her headlights behind me, she was way too close. I was doing around 52 in a 45 mph zone. She started doing this after we were both stopped at a red light. Since she didn’t back off, I slowed down until the ripped around to pass me, then I began pacing the car in front of her. She ended up moving back behind me because she had to be in that lane shortly (at least that’s what I figure). Anyway, I stuck her good, and would do so again in a heartbeat. This is where I get the most joy out of driving.
So to reiterate, don’t be an ass to me, and I won’t ruin your day.
I added Gravatars a couple minutes ago. It was real easy. If you have one, it will show up when you leave a comment. If you don’t have one, you should register your Gravatar today.
For those of you more technically minded, a md5 sum of your email address is used to generate a request for an image to Gravatar’s server. You register a picture with your email address on their server and it can be used globally. At least as globally as Gravatar is used, anyway. It’s a neat idea, really.
For the first time in over three years, I had to run new network cable today. It had to run through the dropped ceiling of the mechanical room of our building, which is about 12 feet off the ground. Many of the ceiling tiles are so old they’ve been caulked in place because they’re falling apart. There were tons of pipes and stuff running through, and access to the ceiling area via ladder was extremely difficult. I came up with the idea of throwing a pull-string through first, with a chemical glowstick tied to it so it would be easy to find.
It was a brilliant idea, and saved us a bunch of trouble. We pulled two cables through. We are now ready for our 10mb fiber.
So if you ever need to run cable through a difficult area, get some glowsticks and string, it worked great for me!
My office is getting a new 10Mb fiberoptic Internet connection soon. Everybody’s thrilled about that. My telco reps (XO) are great to work with, but sometimes you still have to dig for information. Today I saved a crapload of money by digging up the fact that I don’t need a $15,000 Cisco router to handle the traffic, and a $1500 Layer 3 switch will do in my case.
Make sure you know what you need, though—you may have other needs that will require a router, but if you’re like me you may save a crapload of cash.
Just a word of advice to any UN*X/Linux people out there. I have done this for a while now, but forgot about it until today (when I needed it), when it saved my bacony pirate pigu:
Take the important contents of your /etc/fstab file and write it on a sticky note. Stick that to your hard drive in the computer. Two years down the road when you don’t remember what your partitioning table looks like and you have a crash like I did today, it will save you tons of trouble. Here’s what mine looks like:
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 /dev/sda2 swap /dev/sda3 / XFS
I’ve been writing documentation for my code project, MUD3. In case you didn’t know, I call it MUD3 because it’s my
Anyway, I’d be dead if it wasn’t for Doxygen, it’s a life saver! The HTML output is quite good, and it’s an easy command (uh, make pdf) to also create a PDF manual.
When I finish my documentation later this weekend, perhaps I’ll make the documentation public.
As loyal readers know, I just returned from a road trip to Portland OR to visit some family. Every time we drive through Hood River (where I grew up), I always seem to mention how I can’t remember ever going to the Charburger restaurant off exit 62 on I84, right next to the Columbia Gorge Hotel. I thought it was odd to live in a small town for 10 years (1979 to 1989) and never visit such a restaurant. After talking to my mom, she says we have been there, I just don’t remember. Seeing as how I was 6 years old in 1979, I suppose if we went early enough, I wouldn’t remember, but I’m pretty sure we didn’t go there any of my later years.
Anyway, the point is I have to make a recommendation—go there and get a basket of onion rings, even if you don’t like onion rings, they are that good. I also had a great barbecue hamburger, the fries were nothing to write home about, but the onion rings were, hands down the best onion rings I’ve ever eaten in my life.
I got my first spam comment in a month today. Thank you, David for WebHashcash, it’s the spam bomb. If you have a blog, you really should look at implementing it.