Archives: 2009 May
Dr. George Tiller
May 31st, 2009, No Comments
My heart goes out to Dr. Tiller’s family in their time of loss. I’m glad that a suspect has already been arrested. I worry what demented justification he/she will provide for their violence.
Randall Terry is an asshole
May 31st, 2009, No Comments
I was going to link to his savage words on the Operation Rescue website, but it appears to be down at the moment. I hope moderate and liberal Christians turn out it droves to condemn this killing and Terry’s horrid statement.
Cops gone Wild?
May 28th, 2009, No Comments
This is nuts. Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer pulls an ambulance over for failing to yield, while the ambulance is transporting a patient to the ER, and assaults one of the medics after the officer tries to ticket the ambulance. I’m stunned that cops would harrass EMTs while the EMTs are trying to do their job. [...]
InflateColumn::File vs. InflateColumn::FS
May 24th, 2009, No Comments
In my last Perl post I said IC::File fits my needs better and let me serve files using Static::Simple. Well, it did that, but issues with properly handling deletes and updates forced me to re-evaluate my decision and switch to InflateColumn::FS.
The application will manage an archive of discussion papers, including abstracts, BibTeX citations, and supplemental [...]
Variance is a bitch
May 14th, 2009, No Comments
I play poker, specifically No Limit Texas Hold’em. It’s been my hobby activity and minor passion for a few years now. Last night I was playing in my weekly World Tavern Poker league game at Durham Pizza and ran into the brick wall of variance at the final table. My tournament game is somewhat spotty. [...]
On Not Reinventing the Wheel
May 12th, 2009, No Comments
Last year I wrote a Catalyst-based application to manage the workflow for the team of reporters, editors, and publishers providing web reporting for the the annual Unitarian Universalist General Assembly. This includes tracking each event at GA, assigning reporters, photographers, videographers, and managing the writing/editing/publishing workflow for each article to be posted on the GA [...]
GA 2009
May 5th, 2009, No Comments
Yahtzee! I just scored my airline tickets for my trip to General Assembly in June for less than $300 with direct flights in both directions! The only bad part is my flight out to Salt Lake City leaves at 6:30AM. Ugh.
I figured I was going to have to do at least one layover on both [...]
Ants in the sink?
May 4th, 2009, 2 Comments
Weirdness abounds. I’ve dealt with ant intrusions into my home while living in various apartments all my life. It’s just something that happens occasionally. A call to the apartment complex to get the exterminator out usually ends things quickly.
Last week, I experienced a first. It appears that large black ants have taken up residence in [...]
