Dec 18, 2002
Frank posted his review of Spirited Away last night, and I feel that I need to respond to the following comment:
Ironically, Ian and Vic walked out of there claiming to have found it incomprehensible. This astonishes me – this had the most coherent, albeit simple, plot of any … Read more
Dec 16, 2002
I’ve been using XPath and XQuery to parse my XML documents as of late and, wow, does it ever make parsing easier. For instance, suppose I wanted to collect elements which had a bar attribute of “baz”. Using The Mind Electric‘s Electric … Read more
Dec 15, 2002
In case there was any doubt as to my level of geekiness after reading my most recent tirade, Vic wanted me to mention that my background graphic was drawn in XFIG, a vector-based drawing program for systems running X Windows, and … Read more
Dec 15, 2002
To further separate content and style in my weblog, I have eliminated the use of the <tt> and <i> HTML elements. Any use of the <tt> element has been replaced with one of <code>, <samp> or <var> when referencing computer code, output or variables, respectively. I am a little fuzzy on where text which delineates … Read more
Dec 12, 2002
We were encountering a problem in the server code at my company whereby read() requests on a stream were blocking and never returning. This was causing periodic data retrieval within threads to hang, which would eventually eat up all available threads and lead to stale data. I tried creating a watchdog thread which would periodically … Read more
