ReiserFS vs ext4
I was just lamenting to a friend that I wished that Hans Reiser hadn’t gone to jail or hadn’t killed his wife, or that whole sequence of events hadn’t taken place, and the next version of reiserfs could come out instead. Honestly, I’m not entirely convinced that he did the act, I certainly wasn’t there, and at least the evidence made public... Read more →
USOpen Qualifiers (Tennis)
Hi Everyone! This past week I did something exciting. I decided to put my money where my mouth is and thus armed, racket in hand , I signed up for the USOpen New England Sectional Qualifiers. I’m writing this now... Read more →Getting younger day by day
Partly for my own benefit, I’m writing this post to serve as a guide for myself and to remind myself what it takes to oppose aging — not just to halt it, but to reverse it. Part of the problems that lead to aging are physical, and the other part of the problems are behavioral and emotional. First, the necessary non sequitur. ... Read more →Haircutting quotes
Hair Stylist: How would you like your hair? Me: Longer and more of it! And Today: Hair Stylist: How do you want to look? Me: Younger and more attractive to the ladies! Read more →
MySQL performance optimization
In this post, I’m not going to talk ad-nauseum about all the little tweaks you can do to improve MySQL performance (my.cnf memory optimizations, to getting an SSD (do it, it lowers random access time for table-row lookups), to the different ways to execute joins using keys). I assume everyone is familiar with SQL and EXPLAIN types to queries to get access... Read more →
I Hate Shaws/Star Market
Have anyone else noticed that the food that they buy from Star/Shaws market here in Cambridge, particularly the near-MIT-Shaws, spoils within a few hours of purchase? If it is meat, it is rotten before you make it home, if it is “fresh” produce , then it will spoil and... Read more →How much my old Asus laptop sucks
I wrote my brother an email about how much my old Asus laptop sucked and how much better my new laptop is… This new Lenovo that I took forever configuring and deciding on is a million billion times better than my old laptop and everyone elses’ in the world combined, including those people with Lenovos… Now, just to elucidate how preposterous this... Read more →