http://slava.cyberwang.net ..they most certainly are Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:13:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are, after all, just humans.We adore and despise, we wage wars and revolutions, standing up for undefined principals on the basis of morals. Our guidance and drive derived from powers we worship, by invented beings we can never see. We build shelters and raise families to subconsciously justify our ... http://slava.cyberwang.net/2008/04/01/as-a-system-approaches-absolute-zero-of-temperature-all-processes-cease/ This section will get filled in later, after work, with reasons as to why the JVM tends to be a good thing, in the post 9/11 world. http://slava.cyberwang.net/2008/03/24/there-is-nothing-wrong-with-the-jvm/ It seems that when one cancels a MySpace account, it is expected that one fills a block with a narrative, specifying, nay, apologizing for the atrocity one is presumably committing by terminating the ability of this specific e-branch of the News Corporation from collecting exact marketing data for your demographic, ... http://slava.cyberwang.net/2007/09/13/the-myspace-elective-withdrawal/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } A Recent Picture, originally uploaded by Muta. I haven't had a good recent picture, so I'm going to post this one as I figure it looks nice. http://slava.cyberwang.net/2007/01/09/a-recent-picture/ As a software developer, I've gained the privilege of looking at countless lines of code, some my own and some inherited from others. Many times, I'm not just browsing for pleasure, but either debugging or doing further development on these fragments of logic, and sometimes the message being conveyed ... http://slava.cyberwang.net/2007/01/04/on-clarity/ As of recent, most particularly, last week I've recieved several hundred trackbacks to a collection of articles on this page. Had the situation that I'm about to describe been different such circumstances would be celebrated as oposed to being condemned and placed under a heading containing the word "Bastards," ... http://slava.cyberwang.net/2006/11/19/trackbacks-bastards-and-blocklists/ Network programming, in specific, network programming with BSD sockets is somewhat a strange science.  Not many topics are covered in as many old libraries retained for "historical reasons" and oddities of dealing with so many strange conditions that I've ever had the pleasure of dealing with.  In this N-part series ... http://slava.cyberwang.net/2006/10/03/unix-network-programming-why-it-sucks-part-1/ This blog's been missing for a while now.And now it's back up on a new host, with everything that was ever here deleted.Isn't that FUN?Update: Added tags, and LJ crosspost (HI!) http://slava.cyberwang.net/2006/09/25/im-back/