Design FuBeating the sh*t out of bad appsStorage Talk- June 29, 2004 Unfortunately my ankle was fractured pretty badly and it was important I have surgery on Wednesday. Unfortunately this precluded my flying to Norway for GUADEC on saturday. I actually proposed that I fly to Norway on Saturday to my orthopaedic surgeon. He gave me a look that was darker than oil at midnight, and went back to what he was doing without saying anything. Some people tell me I should have interpreted this as a "sounds ok". However, he later said some things about our goal being to...http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog//storage-speaking-notes Adventures in Gimpin'- June 21, 2004 A slivver more than two weeks ago I "sprained" my left ankle playing barefoot soccer. The ankle felt like it was getting better, but as swelling receded my foot felt awful. I could step on it, but the first few steps hurt like crazy. Other steps hurt but I didn't have to brace myself for them. I finally caved and decided to see a doctor. Unfortunately, as predicted, this turned out to be a very frustrating affair. I know some people like lots of choice in Doctor, etc. But I sort of like the...http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog//ankle_broken What I Did Today- June 10, 2004 Its 2:30 pm, I've been awake for a little over an hour, and this is turning out to be a very miserable day. Actually, take that back, its an agressively bad day. The context for this, is that I managed to sprain my ankle pretty badly over the weekend. So I figured there are two common sets of "bad things" in daily life: things that are annoying, and things that hurt. Sprained ankles have a way of taking the set of things that are annoying and making them also lie in the set of things that hurt..http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog//whatididtoday Cicada Cycles and Encryption- June 1, 2004 Apparently, according to an article in the Economist, cicadas have prime-numbered life cycles of 17 or 13 years. Simplistically, when the number of prey increase after some time lag the number of predators increases, driving the number of prey down, resulting in equalibrium. Call this smoothly varying population. Prey that have a cycle where you spike every n years rather than smoothly varying have a leg up on a smoothly varying predator. When cicadas bloom there is a number of predators...http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog//cicada_cycles_and_encryption |