Brad Babb

It's been a while

2008-06-16T17:14:31Z

It's been a while, just testing to make sure that everything still works

The Age of the Essay

2004-09-09T14:32:58Z

http://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html

Public Anonymity No Right Hrmmmm...

2004-06-22T13:46:06Z

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/06/22/0130243.shtml?tid=103&tid=123&tid=158&tid=99

A good read

2004-05-18T21:29:32Z

http://www.walrusmagazine.com/article.pl?sid=04/05/06/1929205&tid=1

Can you smell the coffee? It's ready if you are.

2004-04-25T13:37:02Z

I just purchased the Cuisinart
Grind Brew Thermal 10-Cup Automatic Coffeemaker. And the first brew this morning went perfectly. It will grind, brew, beep, work on a timer, and bring you your coffee. Well maybe not the last one. Keep your jealous remaks in check because you too can purchase on of these [insert your favorite deity here]-sent machines at your local Linens-n-Things.

A good read about the future of games.

2004-03-12T21:35:31Z

http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/games/crash.html

Hmmm

2004-03-02T17:50:33Z

I know you have twenty dollars.

Java Things

2004-03-01T14:23:25Z

For some of your JNDI needs.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ejb0924.html

More NLP Stuff

2004-03-01T14:21:05Z

Information Extraction article/user guide, this is what I found most interesting.
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~hamish/IE/userguide/main.html
A really cool demo application for the NLP stuff.
http://gate.ac.uk/annie/index.jsp

I am my on best friend?

2004-02-29T07:24:50Z

Does anyone know if you can add yourself to your freinds list? I'm would like to see my own post in the friends list. Is there a way to just turn this one. I looked through and account config stuff and didn't see a setting like this.

P.S. Test post from Deepest Sender (http://deepestsender.mozdev.org/), a LiveJournal plug-in for Mozilla.

Mono & .Net Stuff

2004-02-29T07:04:03Z

A couple pages I though Larry and Bo might find interesting.

An Embeddable SQL Database Engine
http://www.sqlite.org/

SQL Lite Data Provider
http://www.go-mono.com/sqlite.html

MonoDevelop finally has a nice page up.
http://www.monodevelop.com

NLP

2004-02-28T03:44:16Z

A cool link I ran across, http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/research/areas/qa_sum.html, dealing with natural language processing software (something I've always found cool), while reading the archived mailing list for the dashboard project (http://www.nat.org/dashboard/). Even if you don't follow next generation or cutting edge software development/information processing (a.k.a cool stuff), you might find the concept and goals of the project fascinating.

Interview with a search engine.

2004-02-27T05:57:38Z

This explains a lot. http://www.satirewire.com/features/satire-jeevesinterview.shtml

The longest coffee name ever

2004-01-15T16:35:38Z

The next time you venture out to your local Starbucks ask for a:

venti mocha quad Ristretto sugar-free vanilla light half-and-half Con Panna wet

and see if you get a blank look. I formulated this massive monstrosity of a coffee name (that would make your grandparents think your speaking in a foreign language) from the new "Make It Your Drink" handbook Starbucks is handing out with your drink purchace. Or they may just hand it out when the unimformed coffee drinkers among us order a "medium coffee" (as I do). I dare anyone to come up with a longer name. (The name has to actually describe a real drink).

Hum Bang

2003-10-30T23:45:45Z

Everyone see this, err hear it? Audio files of what physicist now thing the Big Bang sounded like.

Art work.

2003-10-26T16:48:34Z

My cousin has sent me a link to an online gallary of his artwork. His name is Robbie Palmertree. He has been trying to get his artwork out and seen for a while. He tell me his doing pretty well at the Double Decker festival in Oxford (MS that is). The link is : http://www.geocities.com/madpainterman/artbyrpalmertree.html

Riddles

2003-09-06T18:53:27Z

What has 296 teeth and holds back a monster? Answer in a few days if noone can solve the riddle.

Good Idea...

2003-08-11T14:22:08Z

Has anyone seen the Mailinator? It is a site to use for one off emails? Check it out. I found this in a post at Joel on Software.

Literature

2003-07-30T17:09:14Z

As soon as she walked through my door I knew her type: she was an argument waiting to happen. I wondered if the argument was required... or merely optional? Guess I'd know the parameters soon enough.

"I'm Star At Data," she offered.

She made it sound like a pass. But was the pass by name? Or by position?

"I think someone's trying to execute me. Some caller."

"Okay, I'll see what I can find out. Meanwhile, we're gonna have to limit the scope of your accessibility."

"I'd prefer not to be bound like that," she replied.

"I see you know my methods," I shot back.

She just stared at me, like I was a block. Suddenly I wasn't surprised someone wanted to dispatch her.

"I'll return later," she purred. "Meanwhile, I'm counting on you to give me some closure."

It was gonna be another routine investigation.

— Dashiell Hammett, "The Maltese Camel"

Find the entire work here

Words of wisdom

2003-07-10T03:34:15Z

Eating cheesecake naked on the roof in the rain. Sound like fun, romantic, crazy? Well it’s not. You want to know what it is? Well I’ll tell you. It’s a hard climb. Ever tried get out on your third story balcony and around the overhang with one hand AND not smash you cake? It’s damn hard, especially when you smoke and you’re fat. After this it’s two and a half hours of picking shingle thingies off of your ass. Take some advice, don’t try it.

I'm a slacker

2003-05-16T02:55:48Z

Which OS are You?

Don't know if you seen these before, but I thought they were funny.

2003-05-06T16:03:55Z

Arguing on the internet and even tho i'm not religous this is funny as hell (and there is a t-shirt).

i can hear postgres

2003-05-01T12:10:32Z

muhoohahahahahahahaha.... my evial plan is almost complete.....

TcpClient tcpclient = new TcpClient("my.postgres.server", 5432);
NetworkStream stream = tcpclient.GetStream();
byte[] bytes; Int32 number = (Int32)296;

bytes = BitConverter.GetBytes(IPAddress.HostToNetworkOrder(number));
stream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);

// 00000000 00000002 00000000 00000000 - v2.0
Int32 version = 2 << 16 | 0;
bytes = BitConverter.GetBytes(IPAddress.HostToNetworkOrder(version));
stream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);

string dbname = "test";
bytes = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(dbname.PadRight(64, '\x00'));
stream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);

string username = "postgres";
bytes = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(username.PadRight(32, '\x00'));
stream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);

string command = "";
bytes = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(command.PadRight(64, '\x00'));
stream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);

string unused = "";
bytes = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(unused.PadRight(64, '\x00'));
stream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);

string tty = "";
bytes = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(tty.PadRight(64, '\x00'));
stream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);

stream.Read(bytes, 0, 1);
Console.WriteLine(BitConverter.ToChar(bytes, 0));

stream.close();
tcpclient.close();

Upaid accounts don't get that many line on lj

2003-05-01T06:01:24Z

damnit

test

2003-05-01T05:59:45Z

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