So anyway…

<a href=”http://www.mastersinit.org/geeks-vs-nerds/”><img src=”http://www.mastersinit.org/geeks-vs-nerds/geek-nerd.jpg” alt=”Geeks vs Nerds” width=”430″  border=”0″ /></a><br />From: <a href=”http://www.mastersinit.org”>MastersInIt.org</a> According to that, I’m more nerd than geek, but it seems they automatically equate geeks with GenX and GenY hipsters, and most of the geeks I know are not hipsters (though most of them are GenX). And for the record, I do know Continue reading →

SMBC Theatre presents: Time Traveling Geek

He is now a peer-reviewed, published academic writer: Succinct Data Structures for Assembling Large Genomes published by none other than Oxford University Press. Yo, homey, you da geek! (No, I don’t know what it’s about, except in very abstract terms. It’s to do with ways to handle and compress the enormous amounts of data associated Continue reading →

A woman tells her programmer husband: “Get me a quart of milk. And if they have eggs, get a dozen.” He comes back with 12 quarts of milk.

Of the thousands of ISPs across the globe, numbering 4,000 to 100,000 entities, convincing just 50 ISPs to firm up their approach to botnet infections could have a dramatic effect, the study concluded. These 50 accounted for half the world’s infected machines. The top 200 ISPs, which held the lion’s share to internet access, accounted Continue reading →

I’m going to be doing some server stuff, and weird things might happen to this domain and this blog. Stuff might temporarily disappear, or reappear in weird ways, or other strangeness. I don’t know how long this will take, or how much of it will be visible on the user side. I just wanted to Continue reading →