Miscellanea

Everything that fails to fit, elsewhere

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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Poem of the Day: Ode to a Nightingale (John Keats)

MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains     My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,   Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains     One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:   ‘Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,          5   But being too happy in thine happiness,       That thou,

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