(SCENE: our bedroom, this morning) maradydd: Sweetie, it's time to get up. You've got a doctor's appointment this morning. enochsmiles, not opening eyes: Can't the doctor come here? maradydd, suppressing giggles: No, sweetie, he doesn't do that. It's...

Those screams of rage you heard over the last few hours were me relocating several hundred inline-declared variables to the top of their scope in order to convince a library to compile under Visual Studio. And that was after I spent half an hour...

Sometimes when I'm hungry but don't feel like making anything complicated, I'll whip up a batch of fry bread. It's one of the simplest things I know how to make, consisting of a 16:2:1 ratio by volume of flour, shortening (or other non-dairy hard fat,...

The obvious text-mining homework I posted about yesterday is in fact an assignment for the Pattern Processing course at the University of Sheffield, as confirmed by one of the professors for the course. Somebody's going down.

Because the rent-a-coder websites become clogged with bullshit requests like this and this. Protip: if you're so incompetent that you have to outsource your homework assignments to an Indian codemonkey for $50 a pop, maybe CS is not the major for...