October 2008

16Oct2008

WiTFi

By carlfish on

The upshot of all this, getting WiFi to cover my entire apartment has been a constant battle, one that I've had to solve with no less than five different wireless devices creating three different networks, two in the 2.4GHz band and one up in the heady 5GHz spectrum.

07Oct2008

Operation Two-Notch

By carlfish on

Left to my own devices, I will consume more calories than my body requires, and thus over the course of time gain weight. Whether this is caused by habit or is wired into my physiology is a moot point: the evidence shows that in the absence of other forces, that's what I will do. My solution, the only one that has ever worked for me, is to create a second force that works to tip the balance the other way.

03Oct2008

Empty Boxes: a business idea

By carlfish on

The customer gets the joy of having a package delivered (and an excuse to get up from their desk and chat with the receptionist) without the expense or hassle of actually buying anything.

01Oct2008

Nothing is too trivial to test

By carlfish on

While writing it, I pretty much convinced myself that this code was so simple there was really no point writing unit tests, but as I got close to checking the code in I realised that the first thing my code-reviewer would ask was “where’s the test?”