Miscellaneous Debris – Archive

I wish today was a snow day. 🙁 edit: This is a really cute mood icon, I must say.

I like the fact that in ClearCase (a source-code control program) the History button, which lets you see old versions of your code, is the top of an Ionic pillar. In contrast, the History button in Internet Explorer, letting you see old sites, is in the shape of a clock. Now you tell me, which […]

Why must it be so damn hard to find an old entry on mine in LJ? Google doesn’t index it, Feedster can’t find it, and LJ don’t offer any search service of their own. Anyone have a link to my old Google Translate post, feeding it Beatles lyrics back and forth from English to German? […]

Main Entry: 1Ladyhawke Pronunciation: ‘lA-dE ‘hok Function: noun Etymology: From the 1980’s movie of the same name starring Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer. 1 : A person who inhabits the same house/workplace/environment as you, but whose hours entirely complement yours so that you never actually meet. Main Entry: 2Ladyhawke Pronunciation: ‘lA-dE ‘hok Function: verb Etymology: […]

A while ago Slashdot published an article about the iPod Shuffle playing favorites on music played – with suspicions that it’s biased towards labels who pay Apple for the push. The paranoia itself is silly enough, but this comment really cracked me up: I only have one song on my iPod too. It’s by Led […]

Huh? Corp.