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this one’s for Adrian:

Extreme Makeover, Iraqi Home Edition

Sometimes I get excited about the idea of writing a program that is similar to a spreadsheet, but is less “fuzzy”.

Then I realize that the program has already been written, and is called Matlab (alternatively octave), and if I converted the I/O timing to use octave, I would be stuck doing it until the end of days.

Maybe the administration should be as optimistic in estimating social security’s solvency as they are in projecting tax revenues.

There was a nice sunset tonight, but now it is gone and you can’t see it.

I am surprised that, other than the commercial version, nobody has integrated SSL with VNC.

pooh.

All I will say is that I’m still awake, for lousy reasons.

After adding several gigabytes of music to my iPod using gtkpod at home, I hooked it up to my computer at work. I thought I might download some podcasts.

iTunes, however, had other plans. It decided to delete all the music except the 20 songs in its own database.

I feel like either the majority of computer users live steeped in shit, or I have somehow lost the ability to use closed source software without exposing obvious, reproducible, obnoxious bugs.

UPDATE: I’ve concluded this is intentional (a feature!?). I can turn it off, but only when the iPod is connected to iTunes, meaning I have to let it delete all my music again before I can turn it off. iTunes is more iClosedSourceCrap and if it weren’t Microsoft I’d be thrilled that Apple is going to license a patent covering the iPod interface.

This is quite a bit worse than the ghetto party.

Time for some rant-tastic ranting.

Since comcast has utterly failed to fix a congestion problem that has recurred for at least a month, I’m forced to conclude they’re either incompetent or flat out unwilling to provide decent service.

Looking at this thread on dslreports and a similar thread on the comcast help forums, I’m certain this is not an isolated problem.

The plan for tonight is to:

1. Stay up and watch the shuttle land.
2. Until then, finish my books, because the library is mean and will not let me renew them.