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Monthly Archives: March 2006

Python Playing

The other day in IRC, I was having fun with typing things backwards. I decided to write a Python script to automate my silliness. I came up with this one-liner:
print ”.join([x for x in reversed(raw_input("String here: "))])
Josh came up with this one-liner:
print “stringtoreverse”[::-1]
The main problem with my script is that it uses “reversed()”, [...]

Old Pic

I found this picture of me with what might be our first [an AST IBM 286 clone] or second [Gateway 2000 486] computer. The background and my age lead me to believe it is the latter. But I could be wrong. Note the dot matrix printer.

UPDATE: According to my dad, [...]

St. Patrick’s Day

So apparently here in New Jersey St. Patrick’s Day lasts for three weekends. Who knew? Last weekend was St. Patrick’s Day in Hoboken. This weekend is St. Paddy’s Day in Sleaseside. And next weekend of course is the “real” St. Patrick’s Day. Three weekends to celebrate a man who helped [...]

Some rants

Came across these on reddit.com. Mostly putting them here for myself.
A little anti-anti-hype
Bambi Meets Godzilla
Tour de Babel

Migration Successful

Thanks to the great people at Ackoo I now have a reliable web host. All of my WordPress content seems to have survived the migration. And of course now that I’ve gotten “real” hosting, my home internet has been behaving perfectly. Damn you Comcast. Damn you.