Friday Song Of The Day – Rapper’s Delight
Today’s Friday song of the day is Rapper’s Delight by The Sugar Hill Gang. I’ve heard this song many, many times before and thought it was just a cheezy old song. The other day, however, I actually paid attention to the lyrics. I literally laughed out loud at some of these lyrics. You should definitely …
5 Blogging Tips For Programmers
Most of us have heard that a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, sometimes an example is worth a thousand words. Examples are like pictures in that they give a clear and visible snapshot of something that you are talking about. I am a software engineer and so I blog about programming on occasion. …
Motivation: The Firings Will Continue Until Moral Improves!
I did some playing around with the Parody Motivator Generator from Despair, Inc. I came up with this image which is based off of the old line, “The beatings will continue until moral improves.” It uses Donald Trump’s line from his NBC series The Apprentice, “You’re fired!”
Hilarious Spam Message
I just had this spam comment come across and it breezed by the Akismet filter. Thankfully I have the moderation (human element) filter engaged as well, but this was a funny one so I thought I’d post it. Hey Everybody! I’ve been lurking for awhile but this is a really cool forum so I decided …
Picking Up The Pace
I had a really good run today; it felt like I was actually working and pushing myself a little. Of course to start out the run my iPod froze up on me. I noticed that after a few seconds following the “Workout beginnning” announcement there was no music. So of course I had to stop …
Developer API: Can Your Cell Phone Understand You?
An article over at TechCrunch reviews a new company called vlingo who is developing a mobile API that developers can use to put speech recognition on mobile devices. Their system starts with a basic statistical language model to make the best guess about what you say. It then improves upon that by taking into account …
EverybodyGoTo Giveaway Action Shots!
The Everybody Go To blog hosted a giveaway of a signed USB Drink Cooler and a cool USB Desk Lamp back at the end of July. The winner was announced on July 29th… and it was me! I got the goods in and have finally gotten around to getting a few snapshots of them. Sorry …
Daily WTF: So How Long Should This Thread Wait?
If you haven’t checked out the site Worse Than Failure (yeah, we all know what WTF stands for), then you should go right now. Bookmark it or subscribe to their feed. Some of the stuff they post is absolutely hilarious… if you are a programmer / technical type. Anyway today’s post is about someone being …
Another Week, Another Run
Well, I only got two runs in last week, but it was the first week in a while (for exercise that is). I got my aging keister out of bed this morning at 5:15 AM CST and got out the ole running shoes and iPod. It was actually a decent run and felt really good. …