X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=JuneBlog;h=093f9da2bf2b9ede5b6a0169b7fe41d3531fb4fa;hp=6c2c071439d8c9a3756390ce5f752d75742397f9;hb=6aba4de36637eaf663579e276f13b82831d7c3e3;hpb=1c78021272c232c8e023eb156305efabdabf630e diff --git a/JuneBlog b/JuneBlog index 6c2c071..093f9da 100644 --- a/JuneBlog +++ b/JuneBlog @@ -1,5 +1,38 @@ == June 2007 == +=== Sat, 20th === + +==== Random Birthday Paradox ==== + +I'm writing you this from ChrisBalls's house. cjb for IRC friends. +Yesterday was his wife's birthday. And also the birthday of somebody +else too. That's where the title came from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_paradox . + +We're having a lot of fun and getting drunk very quickly. Someone +came with a box of Avocados with a picture of Avogardo saying: +"let's Party. arriba." It's the things like these that will make it +very sad for me to leave this nation. + +Food is vegan, and incredibly tasty if you ask me. There are people +from the office as well as other nerds from other places. One guy +showed up with a tee saying: "shut the fuck up and write some +code!". We're listening to TheSoundOfSilence from Xyzzy's (*) mp3 player. +That's one of my favourite songs, but I thought it was from the Beatles :-) + +(*) We'll call her Xyzzy 'cause she doesn't want her name to end up on +Internet. + + +Xyzzy: remember...all is not as it appears to be and the best place to hide something is in plain sight + +Bernie: hmmm... then I guess I'll hide at OLPC and the USCIS won't find me :-) + +RandomBirthdayParty.jpg +RandomBirthdayPartyHouse.jpg +RandomBirthdayPartyTv.jpg +RandomBirthdayPartyHall.jpg + + === Tue, 26th === ==== Long time, no C++ ==== @@ -44,6 +77,9 @@ that C++ is still good today at is high-performance libraries (eg: math libraries), where you don't want to use C and you need a lot of performance. But C++ is feeling more and more like a dead horse... +'''marco:''' About writing kernels in C++: +http://okmij.org/ftp/cpp-digest/toy_OS.txt + === Wed, 13th === ==== Under pressure ====