Crane + Camera

What do you get when you cross a camera and a crane….

Amazing

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”

(Via Clippings.)

Do not try this at home

A hard drive becomes fragmented very, very fast.
What happens is that all the tiny ones and zeros gets mixed and confused, and to get back the original speed on Your hard drive it’s necessary to Defragment it.

No REALLY THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO DO IT. But if you read this and can quickly discern that it is bad advice you might also find it funny

(Via .)

7 worst words in code

Here are the candidates for the top 7 worst verbs used in function names. I don%u2019t know if programmers invented these, but whoever did was one evil dude.

Ok I have done some of these, but I do tend to steer away from them more and more. Sometimes I wonder if because I started coding in the day of x,y,a,b,i,j as the variable style that I relish just a little too much in verbosity of methods and naming…

A BeTaMaXMaS – Smurf’s Christmas Special Pt 1

Best Holiday Site EVER

Lipstick on a Pig

The RNC paid $110,400 on hair and makeup artistry on Sarah Palin for her two months in the sun.

Plus $55,000 more for clothes.

(ed.note: Let me stipulate that the title refers very broadly to the insufficiency of expenditures on superficialities to compensate for Palin’s shortcomings as a candidate.)

Ok really those who know my dev style will know why this Title makes me laugh

(Via Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall.)