The Houston Roller Derby is starting up their 2009 season this weekend at Kicks Indoor. The doors will open at 6pm, the bout will start at 7pm this Saturday, and the after party will be at the new venue (we have to break it in right). Here’s a note from Scarlet O’Hurtya (twitter): I hope … Read more
Do you remember when Apple announced its iPhone? It had to file with the FCC, so it was going to become public 6-months in advance. They pre-announced to keep control of their message. They held a lot of cards to their vest, and it wasn’t really clear what functionality was actually available until the summer … Read more
I recently left my internal enterprise programming position at ambulance manufacturer Frazer, located in southwest Houston. I am now currently working with FlipSide5 on iPhone application development. Two of the main guys there are old NeXTstep programmers I worked with at FannieMae in the mid 90s and in a software development tools company, Inline Software, … Read more
Since the meme was unimplored, and it somewhat amused me, and it was totally random and adequately non sequitur, I share with you my album cover:
Ancient Orient Museum |
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even in his silence… |
And FYI:
a museum in tokyo
Stanislaw Lem
I followed the directions from my friend Peter’s post. My modification being that I didn’t photoshop it:
There are many better ways to trace through your code in any environment than with print statements. If there’s not, you need to change jobs (or convince them to choose an environment that won’t waste all your time chasing bugs). Your first order of business should be to familiarize yourself with your debugger. However, there … Read more
Spring is already on show in Houston. A particularly warm day in February brought out the wood sorrel, which hangs around for a few months, showing itself on warm days. There are so many species of Oxalis that I’m not even going to attempt to identify this one. It does much better in the parts … Read more