Philosophy Bites

\<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">In Our Time I would say that these have nothing to do with software development, but there was actually a great "Philosophy Bites" on vagueness that touched directly on fuzzy logic …

"Citing Medicine" has issued a standard for citing blogs in academic writing, which would like this for this entry:

O'Brien, L. Knowing.NET [blog on the Internet]. Kailua Kona: [Larry O'Brien]. [June 2002] -  [cited 2007 October 13]. Available from http://www.knowing.net/.

The first thing I don't like is …

Between the semi-regularly broken CAPTCHA on my comment system and reports I'm getting from some correspondents, I may have been hard to get in touch with recently. Try lobrien -at- email for a day or two.

Word to the wise: do not combine Windows symlinks with Subversion; it cannot handle them:

G:\svn\websites>mkdir foo

G:\svn\websites>svn add foo
A         foo

G:\svn\websites>svn commit -m "message"
Adding         websites\foo
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: File not found: transaction '39-1', path …

Yuriy Solodkyy demonstrates the \<a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/ysolodkyy/archive/2007/10/07/using-linq-with-system-reflection-classes.aspx"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">combination of LINQ and Reflection APIs, a technique which could prove to be tremendously powerful and which strikes me as allowing LINQ-enabled languages to have a level of …

A year ago I said that HDTV didn't make sense for me. But with the arrival of Tivo HD, the dollar weakening and making dramatic price drops less likely, and the Red Sox making the playoffs, I decided to make the jump and bought a Philips 42".

The biggest problem …

Trying to play the very first HD DVD that I've rented ("The Host"), I received an XBox blade popup that said "Can't play this content. Reason code: C66700B." Does anyone know what this is? Please don't tell me there are incompatible HD DVD formats or DRM restrictions that say "Oh …

I've got a few prototypes of content-aware image resizing running and the results are interesting, perhaps primarily because the algorithm works so well that usually you say "eh, what's the big deal?" Unless there are faces in the photo, but more on that later...

Coincidentally, I ordered some prints to …

I've never played Halo nor Halo 2. I've now played the first level ("Groundfall" or somesuch) of Halo 3. Gotta' tell you: my initial impression is that it's not as entrancing as Gears of War or Call of Duty. The cutscenes make absolutely no sense to a newbie, the level …

Excel 2007: The problem is that the 3rd column contains =a2*b2 ... (the first 500 numbers for 2\^32 pass, though...)

 13
 26
 49
 52
 81
 87
 93
 98
104
107
115
117
119
123
162
169
173
174
186

etc. etc.

Is there a pattern in there?