Miscellanea

Everything that fails to fit, elsewhere

Whatever happened to…

Whatever happened to “Take Me Out to the Ballgame?” Why are the World Series games featuring “God Bless America?” That’s a fine sentiment – though not a very good piece of music, in my opinion – but a seventh-inning stretch without “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” is an outrage. In fact, it’s unpatriotic, even […]

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Rough Day

Okay, it could have been much worse, but this was a rough day. I smacked into the curb, pulling out of the garage, this morning. No damage to the car, so far as I can tell. I bollixed up my understanding of a set of cases in Contracts. I made a fool of myself in

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FOSS OTD: Memtest86

“What?”, you ask? “FOSS OTD” = “Free / Open Source Software Of The Day.” I’m going to try this out, though it’s likely to be somewhat sporadic; I do, after all, have classes to pass! Anyway, the selection for the day is Memtest86, a Stand-Alone Memory Diagnostic. Memtest86 will help you find memory problems (hopefully)

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