Fearless warriors
Raaaaaaaarrr! Fear the fearsome men of our household, who single-handledly almost killed a spider! It was a huuuuuuge two centimetres long if it was an inch! We are most certainly the bravest warriors in these here parts.
Bug breeders
There’s an interesting article on ZDNet here, quoting some supposed big-wig security guy – Howard Schmidt – asserting that programmers should be held personally responsible for bugs in the code they write. It’s a very controversial topic, especially amongst the programmers themselves – let’s face it, we all know how much our code can suck,… Read more
Thesis, report writing and serenity
1) Actually resumed construction of my thesis. Shane dropped by an old VCR for me to steal the case from, which was a really good deed. To make it even worse, he gave me a lift to uni. I really didn’t thank him enough, on all counts. I mean, superficially he “owed” me one, ’cause… Read more
Hodgepodge
Today was a hodgepodge, without any clear highlights. Which is ironic, given I felt I got quite a bit done today. I got my ARC assignment handed in, all nicely bound in it’s 60 pages or so, as well as the INS assignment et al. I confirmed that my uni is going to be annoying… Read more
Purposefully mangling arrays of structs
It’s a pretty common scenario to have an array of some structs, where you frequently iterate through the array using only one field in the struct. This is a cache nightmare – memory is loaded into cache sequentially by prefetching, meaning you’re wasting all that bandwidth loading all the other fields of the struct that… Read more
Sleeping in, school work ahead of time (!!!) and groovy graphs
1) Slept in. Pretty self explanatory. It’s Saturday, I got to stay up late last night, sleep in this morning, and be none the worse for it. Fantastic. :) 2) Polished of the lab write-up for INS. This isn’t due in until Friday, which normally means I’d be putting it off until at least Friday,… Read more