fools's day blog

Not Perfect .. but really nice song :)

2009-03-06T03:02:00.000-08:00

Tim Minchin - Not Perfect

This is my Earth
And I live in it
It’s one third dirt
And two thirds water
And it rotates and revolves through space
At rather an impressive pace
And never even messes up my hair
And here’s the really weird thing
The force created by its spin
Is the force that stops the chaos flooding in

This is my Earth
And it’s fine
It’s where I spend the vast majority of my time
It’s not perfect
But it’s mine
It’s not perfect

This is my country
And I live in it
It’s pretty big
And nice to walk on And the bloke who runs my country
Has built a demagoguery
And tought us to be fearful and boring
And the wierdest thing is that he is
Conservative of politics
But really rather radical of eyebrow

This is my country
And it’s fine
It’s where I spend the vast majority of my time
It’s not perfect
But it’s mine
It’s not perfect

This is my house
And I live in it
It’s made of cracks
And photographs
We rent it off a guy who bought it from a guy
Who bought it from a guy
Whose grandad left it to him
And the weirdest thing is that this house
Has locks to keep the baddies out
But they’re mostly used to lock ourselves in

This is my house
And it’s fine
It’s where I spend the vast majority of my time
It’s not perfect
But it’s mine
It’s not perfect
But it's mine

This is my body
And I live in it
It’s 31
And 6 months old
It’s changed a lot since it was new
It’s done stuff it wasn’t built to do
I often try to fill it up with wine
And the weirdest thing about it is
I spend so much time hating it
But it never says a bad word about me

This is my body
And it’s fine
It’s where I spend the vast majority of my time
It’s not perfect
But it’s mine
It’s not perfect

This is my brain
And I live in it
It’s made of love
And bad song lyrics
It’s tucked away behind my eyes
Where all my screwed up thoughts can hide
Cos God forbid I hurt somebody
And the weirdest thing about a mind
Is that every answer that you find
Is the basis of a brand new cliché

This is my brain
And it’s fine
It’s where I spend the vast majority of my time
It’s not perfect
But it’s mine
It’s not perfect
I’m not quite sure I’ve worked out how to work it
It’s not perfect
But it’s mine

sourceforge

2008-02-22T07:01:00.000-08:00

my very first project published on sourceforge:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/semn/

if you run Linux with KDE give it a try .. you will need KDE4 installed and Nepomuk running.

Web LOTR

2007-11-05T05:07:00.000-08:00

Excellent map of the Web / SOA in LOTR style, by Paul Downey. Link here.

interesting licensing

2007-09-26T10:50:00.000-07:00

today i was searching the web for a Java library that would allow me to get the creation time of files* ... one of the solutions I found was this ... since my code would eventually be used for some open source application, I had to make sure that the owner of the library was OK with it ... the last words of the license said:

Non-military use only.

That is something that I've never seen before, and I like very much ... so much that I'm thinking about using it for my own code**.

* I was surprised to find out that on *nix systems the creation time of files is not saved ... weird
** I have to ask my boss if I can do this for the code I write at work too ...

aouch!!! my brain hurts

2007-09-20T05:14:00.000-07:00

while reading about Qt, C and the like, i found this:

Of course one sometimes needs to combine some of these different uses of ‘const’ which can get confusing as in

const int*const Method3(const int*const&)const;

where the 5 uses ‘const’ respectively mean that the variable pointed to by the returned pointer & the returned pointer itself won’t be alterable and that the method does not alter the variable pointed to by the given pointer, the given pointer itself & the object of which it is a method.