Month: July 2008

  • Dark Knight

    I’m going to join most people in saying that Dark Knight is a good movie. Heath Ledger’s performance as the Joker is amazing. He manages to bring a layer of plausibility to the character while still being a homicidal maniac. You can almost believe that this character could exist. (I have to note that Roger…

  • Combining Versions

    Sun introduced a symbol versioning scheme to use for the linker. Their implementation is relatively simple: symbol versions are defined in a version script provided when a shared library was created. The dynamic linker can verify that all required versions are present. This is useful for ensuring that an application can run with a specific…

  • ANWR

    I’ve thought for some time that the most sensible approach to the oil in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge is to hold onto it until we need it. The amount of oil there is irrelevant to today’s economy. On current trends, the total production would be some 1% of the world’s oil production, not enough…

  • Drug Laws

    Our drug laws don’t work. Immense amounts of money are spent on drugs. Because drugs are illegal, this money goes to criminals. This leads to ghastly levels of violence in places like Mexico and Colombia. Drug money supports the Taliban (admittedly this money is probably mostly from Europe) which spends it on attacking U.S. armed…

  • eBay

    I’m not a serious eBay user. I’ve bought four or five items on eBay over the years. I’ve never sold anything on it. I once did a sales presentation at eBay; they didn’t buy our software. I was surprised to read in the newspaper that eBay is making a deal with buy.com to sell stuff…