Duncan's BlogMy Life in BostonPhone vs. AIM- October 25, 2003 I didn't have much to do last Thursday night, so I decided to stay in the Pit at school and hang out with the Crew kids. On my way home, I told Pete how living without a net connection makes me feel really isolated sometimes, especially on the weekends. Even though I have a phone, it seems like being on AIM is really an important presence for everyone. I realized that a lot of social engagements are now organized over AIM; the phone call is used simply as a way of confirming the time and...http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/blog/archives/000192.html Thinking about Performance- October 25, 2003 Last night, while reading Brad Abrams's blog, I came across this entry on the performance of managed code. I thought Rico Mariani's talk on perf-related things to remember when writing code was pretty good. I think he is very right that, with Managed code, when so many things is so easy now, people don't associate performance cost with this newfound ease of use. Immediately after watching the feed, I went to the monodoc generator tool and found a nested foreach loop that I wrote. I remember.http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/blog/archives/000191.html Show me the money!- October 12, 2003 I received my copy of Paul Krugman's book, The Great Unraveling, earlier the week. It's been my bedtime reading for the past few nights. It's pretty scary reading. Sometimes, his writing has this I told you so, or see, I was right, and he was wrong tone that feels a bit egotistical; however, I do understand why he needs to do that - sometimes it's necessary for a bit of this to convince the public that things are really getting pretty bad. The part in the introduction about Henry Kissinger's.http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/blog/archives/000172.html Red Sox- October 7, 2003 The Red Sox won their game against the A's last night, at around 11pm. I was eating dinner at the time, and suddenly, I started hearing people screaming and yelling from the park in front of my house. I called some of my friends, trying to find out what's going on. Deanna told me she wasn't hearing anything. I then called Anthony, my de facto baseball expert. Just as I started talking to him, a parade of people started marching up Park Drive, screaming and yelling and cheering. It was quite a...http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/blog/archives/000156.html Different types on Blogs- October 7, 2003 I was reading How to be Alone on the T today, I realized that there exists two types of blogs: A blog of essays. Examples: Chris Brumme, Adam Bosworth. The entries tend to be long and information-packed. All the entries fall under some general central theme. People generally don't make fun of these blogs. A blog of short postings. Example: most blogs found on LiveJournal. Entries tend to be short and personal, like a public diary. When people make fun of blogs, they make fun of this type of...http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/blog/archives/000153.html Evolution and Pachyderm- October 6, 2003 I left my power adaptor and cord at the CRL this past weekend; I don't have classes today, so figured I'll head to Cambridge and fetch it. Along the way, I took my Edward Tufte poster and Constancia thank-you note certificate thingy from GULEV and got them framed. While searching for the poster, I found an old Netscape poster I stole when I visited their campus in the spring of 2000 at home. I found some gummy stuff and it's up on one of the walls now. But this article is about Pachyderm, a.http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/blog/archives/000152.html |