Count Infinity

Denial

John Crenshaw — Fri, 20 May 2011 04:39:42 +0000

I’m allergic to stupid people. Within minutes of exposure I start to feel woozy, then I start to cough. Shortly after that I become uncomfortable and irritable. Pills don’t help. My only relief comes from removing the stupid people. Educating…

Immunity

John Crenshaw — Wed, 18 May 2011 22:36:53 +0000

A lot has been said about the supposed immunity of Apple products to malware. If I had a nickle for every time I heard that “Macs can’t get viruses”, I’d be a rich man. Even Apple perpetuates this lie, but…

12 Reasons Ruby Should be Banished to Whatever Firey Pit It Came From

John Crenshaw — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:40:18 +0000

Implicit Returns – Can you say “What the !@#$%”? This is just wrong on SOOOO many levels. This appears to be one of the many casualties of the never ending quest to eliminate commonly typed characters from the language.

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Getting a Callstack When Your Puppet Plugin Fails

John Crenshaw — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 07:06:39 +0000

I have been well trained in the art of foo. I started at the innocent age of 8, learning some BASIC-foo. I first tinkered with some HTML-foo at 12. At 14 I stepped my BASIC-foo up a notch, and started…

Out of Thin Air

John Crenshaw — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 08:37:03 +0000

The origin of man is perhaps the most hotly debated topic in history. Over the years religionists, scientists, philosophers, kings, and fools have all participated in the fight, each drawing different conclusions. I believe the answer is reasonably simple, and with only a little effort we can riddle out the source.

Microsoft, My Wife is Crying

John Crenshaw — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:59:01 +0000

Microsoft hurt my wife. Below is the email I sent to CEO Steven Ballmer (Bill Gates stepped down a while ago) and Chief Marketing Officer Mich Mathews (since this could become a PR issue, and I know that marketing can…

Disabling (Fixing) Google’s New Instant Preview

John Crenshaw — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:38:00 +0000

UPDATE: It looks like Google just rolled out an update that breaks this fix. The good news is that Google has MOSTLY fixed the problem, in that clicks in blank space will clear the pane, and a second click on…

.svn/tmp directory may be missing or corrupt

John Crenshaw — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:53:26 +0000

I recently spent a substantial amount of time trying to fix an error I got after installing a new subversion client. “your .svn/tmp directory may be missing or corrupt”. The message indicates to run a cleanup, but cleanup just gives…

It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere

John Crenshaw — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:09:29 +0000

You can learn a lot about a person by casually reminding them that somewhere in the world, perhaps not here, but somewhere, it is 5 o’clock. Soon-to-be-drunks will rejoice. Students at various party colleges will hoot and laugh about getting…

Unconstitutional

John Crenshaw — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:34:12 +0000

On September 17th 1787 39 men (including the secretary) gathered in Virginia, not far from where I live, and signed the most important document in American history. George Read signed twice, once for himself, and once as a proxy for…