If all of this 12 hour versus 24 hour versus day light savings versus GMT versus Zulu versus UTC time information wasn’t confusing enough, we must not forget Swatch who kicked it up another notch by inventing Swatch Internet Time aka “the beat”.
Swatch Internet Time is a concept introduced in 1998 and marketed […]
Jodi and I took a day off work and got freshies at Alpental.
Go check out the whole Alpental flickr set. The resolution isn’t that great since I took them from my cellphone, but better than nothing right?
Dear internet, please send me a Mini-Z LED Desk Lamp, thanks!
I love that these LED lights consume something like 7-10 watts compared to 40+ for a traditional light. See more LED lamps from Koncept.
HHKB Professional HG JAPAN is simply amazing. Who doesn’t love a keyboard with keys painted by the “special Urushi brush made from the tender hairs of a virgin.” CNet Asia
Look at that hand painted and gold dusted keyboard. Popgadget has this to say:
I’m not sure why anyone would pay US$4240 for a blank […]
Image from the Seattlest Flickr Group courtesy of Matt Westervelt.
I wish I knew who to credit for this picture besides Seattlest.
Java and it’s classloaders, always a fun time!
Every been using Maven2, Cargo and deploying to Jetty 6 with Commons Logging? Probably not, but if you were you’d run into this I bet.
org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: Invalid class loader hierarchy.
This is a Type-2 Classloader error. I know, what does that mean?
Type-II: Assignment incompatibility […]
I’ve said before that you should learn one editor and learn it well! This video by Vim’s creator is another way to get better at using Vim.
I’m continually freaked out about the number of programmers and technologists that can’t use one editor well. If you’re a vim user but haven’t felt like […]
Google is holding a conference in Seattle about scalability They are accepting papers now and will open up registration in a while. The conference will take place June 23, 2007 at Google’s Seattle office.
If you have a great new idea for handling a growing system or an innovative approach to […]
Just when I think jwz is getting a bit low on freaky links, today he lets us learn more about tapeworms! This only important when you consider the possibility that people really are at risk for this… which you might not think is possible in the modern US-of-A. Well, ABC shows us how […]
Oh that Napoleon Dynamite such the software developer…
Don: Hey, Napoleon. What did you do yesterday?
Napoleon Dynamite: I told you! I spent it with coding up sweet classes!
Don: Design Patterns, did you use any?
Napoleon Dynamite: Yes, like 50 of ‘em! Clients kept trying to instantiate my concrete classes, what the heck would you do in a […]