Monthly Archives: July 2006
Slow on the uptake
I don’t know why it took me years to figure this out… I just never tried this: a = [1,2,3] d = { 1 : ‘one’, 2 : ‘two’, 3 : ‘three’ } map(d.get, a) ['one', 'two', 'three'] Shouldn’t this … Continue reading
Personal Submarines
For the last 5 minutes, I was thinking about personal submarines. How much would one of those cost? Who makes them? What is the latest technology in the personal submarine business? So, after a little searching, here is what I … Continue reading
More people getting fired… now eBay
While searching for a submarine to buy on eBay Motors, I click on http://motors.search.ebay.com/submarineeBay-MotorsW0QQcatrefZC2QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQsacatZ6000 and get the much quainter message: Http/1.1 Service Unavailable It’s sporradic, but wow… what luck
Someone just got fired
Attempting to go to http://www.bananarepublic.com/ got me this: Virtual Host or Web Application Not Found The web group default_host/ has not been defined IBM WebSphere Application Server Yep, someone is going to get fired. Or maybe this is just signs … Continue reading
Declaration vs. Definition
Today I was thinking about something about programs. In most languages, you have to literally declare stuff before it can be used. This is true in C, Python, and a bunch of other languages. The annoying example that I’m thinking … Continue reading
multipart/form-data is my new friend
Why didn’t I dig into this sooner? All the other types are much more complicated. This one is the easiest and the most powerful.
Hip Tip for Windows
When you want to get rid of a lot of startup crap that gets installed on a computer, just do: start msconfig It gives you a gui to change all the settings.