I was chatting the other day with Paul Usher about the goings on in the UK and he suddenly veered off on a weird tangent. He’d heard a rumor that Tesla lived in Colorado Springs, which is where I live, and was it true? By that he meant Nikola Tesla, not the cars. […]
READ MORELike many of my readers I’m sure, I get scam texts trying to sell me something, or pretending to be some financial institution, or attempting to deceive me into doing something I don’t need to do. Me? Probably one a week on average, although of late I’m getting “Vote for Me!” type texts as well. Roll on November 8th when that’ll all go away. […]
READ MOREFor some unearthly reason, over the past week I’ve been suffering from daily Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) issues on my Dell XPS 13 laptop. Essentially all of a sudden, my keyboard freezes up, I can move my mouse but clicks no longer have any effect, and then after about 10 – 15 seconds I get the BSOD. […]
READ MOREOne of the things I’m missing a lot at the moment is conference travel. 2020 was the year in which face-to-face conferences were suddenly tossed aside in favor of virtual or broadcast versions, and slowly but surely 2022 – especially the latter half – has brought them back. We’ll see how things go for us at work, especially in the spring next year. […]
READ MOREYou know it’s a great evening just as you’re getting ready to go to bed and have a good night’s sleep after a hard day’s work when you get two – yes, TWO – emails from Facebook that start: […]
READ MOREMe, a month ago, while on our holiday in England: Yeah, it's Saturday, let's nip into Oxford Street and do a bit of shopping. It's Saturday, so no issues with the congestion charge. […]
READ MORERecently, I’ve been reminiscing a bit about the past ever since I rediscovered a small set of old dairies in some box in the basement whilst looking for something else. For some unknown reason at that particular stage of my life, I managed (endeavored? was encouraged?) to keep a daily diary, and did it for a couple of years, basically from my last few months of University well into my first job. Since then? Nope, no diaries. […]
READ MOREFor a few reasons, this year has been very different for me. More so than even 2020 and the start of the big pandemic was. For instance, I went to get my eyes checked about 6 months ago, got some new glasses with a new stronger prescription, and I still feel awkward and clumsy since everything seems closer but isn’t. Witness me falling flat on my face at Heathrow at the start of our vacation because I didn’t realize the curb was higher than I noticed. […]
READ MOREWeirdly, someone pinged me about a week ago asking about the A* algorithm. Wut?, I thought to myself, and then remembered writing an article about it way back when. So, here goes… […]
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