Category Archives: Rants

Isn’t local government grand?

For the last few weeks the news has been telling us over and over again to make sure we have flood insurance, to make sure we’re “prepared”, and to make sure we have an emergency plan.  That’s because near a dam on the Green River, there’s (apparently) an earth embankment that’s likely to (somehow) fail… Read More »

Project Euler

I like Project Euler.  If you’ve never heard of it, it’s a website with a few hundred math/programming puzzles to solve, and it keeps track of which ones you’ve solved, who else has solved them, etc etc. Yesterday, I was working on solving one of the problems.  The way you know you’ve solved it is… Read More »

Boycott Eidos Interactive

This is something that happened around May 2008, but I thought I’d share it with you.  There are several incidences of idiocy in this story, but at least it has a happy(ish) ending. This is one of those posts that’s kind of long.  You may want to grab yourself a snack before you read any… Read More »