September 2007 Archives

It finally happened. I'm starting to get Swedish spam (well, obviously email one, not that pig meat thing) to one of my actual email addresses. Then world is ending! Seriously though, WTF. I just wished that people started to stop clicking on these infernal links. I mean, if someone is willing to pay some amount of money for each email, or just each click originating from a particular email, all we have to do is to stop clicking, right? It's getting ridiculous. We are now having the neural nets we just so touted that would do awesome things to just sort our emails for spam.

There are some things that you take for granted but then again you meet blank stares when you talk about it as it was a given. It is very easy to forget that some things that you take for granted, others have not yet seen or thought about and vice versa. We're all colored by our own quirky way through the maze towards programming enlightenment. My own path has taught me the following of build configurations: Debug and Release are not enough.

So the other day I got my grubby mits on a retail version of the game Heavenly Swords. Finally I can find out what the hell twing twang is!

I ran MacOSX early on my G3 laptop (now retired) and I loved it. One of the things I really loved was the way Mac rendered fonts. They are really completley different than the way Windows does it. Now I recently found out that I can run Safari (the native browser on MacOSX) on my Windows machine.

C++ has a lot of nasty corners that smell a lot as well as some remarkable things that can be used in some fairly suprising manners. One of the little understood corners of C++ is name lookup. Name lookup is something very basic but the basics seems to be the things that people skim over when learning C++ or just using it. Things like L-values and R-values are part of the basics and they are sadly little understood.