Introducing the Win-Pod

Touch in Windows 7… looks familiar… (just a little bit bigger)windowsvistablog.com

Superfluous Mission Statements

It’s our responsibility to dramatically provide access to resource-leveling meta-services in order to professionally promote emerging products while maintaining the highest standards

 or

Our mission is to authoritatively fashion professional intellectual capital so that we may endeavor to seamlessly engineer excellent information to stay competitive in tomorrow’s world

or

It’s our responsibility to authoritatively negotiate innovative services in order to solve business problemsor

Our mission is to interactively create virtual data to meet our customer’s needs

Oh, it’s soo good: http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/games/career/bin/ms.cgi

Happy Birthday to Me

It’s my birthday today.  Happy birthday to me.

My Programmer Personality Type

 Yes.  Another personality type quiz.  Whatever.

Dirk’s programmer personality type is:

PLSB

You’re a Planner.
You may be slow, but you’ll usually find the best solution. If something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right.

You like coding at a Low level.
You’re from the old school of programming and believe that you should have an intimate relationship with the computer. You don’t mind juggling registers around and spending hours getting a 5% performance increase in an algorithm.

You work best in a Solo situation.
The best way to program is by yourself. There’s no communication problems, you know every part of the code allowing you to write the best programs possible.

You are a liBeral programmer.
Programming is a complex task and you should use white space and comments as freely as possible to help simplify the task. We’re not writing on paper anymore so we can take up as much room as we need.

Take yours at Programmer Personality Test

New Take Solace Logo (Semi-Permanent)

So, I was in the mood and started messing around with designs for the Take Solace logo.  What do you think?

Woops. 850,000 Phones Fell in the Toilet Last Year

My friend consistently looses her cell phone in odd places. Parks, classrooms, bars – but I don’t think she ever lost anything in the toilet. Probably because she’s not British. Here’s a report on the different ways people smash, loose and water-log their phones:

Brits Drop 850,000 Phones Down the Toilet – Each Year

I’ve been telling everyone about the importance of backups for a while. Make sure you have your virtual little-black-book backed up otherwise you might lose the number of that hottie in the green dress you saw the other night at The Art Bar.

Take the advice of my friend: She keeps the number of her husband taped to the back of her cell. She must have lost and found it 5 times this way. Good thing there are honest people around.

Finally! I Can Beat Laura at Monopoly!

She knew it was coming. I’m going to beat Laura finally because I just read this Wikihow on How to Win at Monopoly.

Oh, it’s going to be really really sweet. (as long as she doesn’t find this post and learn all the secrets…)

Pi Art by an Autistic Savant

My friend just forwarded me a piece of artwork that was produced by an autistic savant.

[Danial Tammet can] calculate huge sums in his head in seconds and instantaneously recognise prime numbers, but he finds emotions difficult to understand and has trouble telling left from right. One of fewer than fifty such people living worldwide, Daniel is unique in his ability to articulate his savant experience.

He describes his visual experience of numbers as complex synaesthetic shapes with colour, texture and motion. Thirty-seven is lumpy like porridge, while eighty-nine reminds him of falling snow. Sequences of digits form visual landscapes in his mind.

In March 2004, Daniel set a European record when he recited the famous mathematical constant Pi from memory to 22,514 decimal places in a time of 5 hours.

Here’s his Original Artwork of a Pi Landscape. It’s only £250 (About $495.95 US).

Free Repairs on Fire Breathing Toilet

Japanese company offers free repairs on toilets that could catch fire. And it’s not because of the buffalo wings you ate last night:

Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,266300,00.html

My Flagr Map Spots

Note: You may have to move the map around to find the flags.