Let’s see how this does.
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Harry Potter
What is my damage? I’m 37 (well, OK, almost 38… and if you don’t believe me, ask Rob) and reading Harry Potter like it’s going out of style. I just finished the Goblet of Fire and I’m now backtracking and reading the first 3 in order. I never read any of them before seeing the movies, but now I’m hooked like a crazy person. Please help me. I’ll be seeing the movie this weekend, of course. 
Speaking of crazy reading, I just today received my copy of “Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader”, something I ordered a month or two ago when I was in my read-all-things-Star-Wars phase. It should be good, but I ain’t starting it until I read my Potter through Prisoner of Azkaban. Then I’ll read about Darth, then I’m onto the newer Potter books. Whee!! Or maybe, I’ll leave Darth to last, if he’ll allow it.
I must admit though, it feels just plain wrong to walk into the Children’s section to find the book you are looking for. Why are they in there? I swear more adults read them than kids. Maybe the parents send their kids in to fetch them a book. Kind of like the inverse of when the older brother scores some liquor for his underage sibling. Kinda.
The Tao of Coding
The sword maker… continuously polishing, honing. So must your coding be if you are to be successful. Sure you can throw stuff together and it might work, but what about later, when you have to change something. Will you remember what you were trying to do with some piece of code? Will you even be able to read it? What happens when a major revision is needed? (more…)
Everyone wants more speed
And here’s one way to get it for your M3. Yes, it does help, but it’s a lot of money for the small gain you get.
It was written by a good friend of mine. Quite a smart guy
VROOM!
I hate xcode
Simple as that. I hate it. It sucks. The sad part is they really think they have something there. But the only thing they have is a worthless lump of crud. The other day it decided to thrash my system for no apparent reason. Same sources as always, etc. but it took about 10 minutes of thrashing before it stopped. My attempts to watch what was going on in ‘top’ saw memory down to 16MB (I have 2G). After it subsided (and I had tried killing that damn thing and starting over, but it did it again), I was greeted with 1.8 gig of memory again. That’s right, to build my (somewhat small) project, it pretty much ate every living resource on the planet. (more…)
