Author: Dr Wingnut
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Because it’s my Job; so get used to it
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?Rene Descartes
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Design Fragility
Complexity breeds fragiligy Fragility breeds suprises Surprises are bad Bob Colwell, IEEE Spectrum January 2004
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Crackpot Friends
A water bearer in India had two large pots; each hung on the ends of a pole, which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the…
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May I help you?
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.Lucille Ball
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Weirdness with .htaccess
I started to make Dr. Wingnut more accessible last night by adding an error page to handle missing page requests, etcetera. As part of that process I created the .htaccess file with the following content:ErrorDocument 400 /error.phpErrorDocument 403 /error.phpErrorDocument 404 /error.phpErrorDocument 500 /error.phpThe error.php file builds a response formatted with the same structure as the…
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Bad hair day
As much as the doctor has enjoyed the mugshot gallery at "Ugly People", which seems to have been taken over by adultfriendfinder.com he has been tipped off to another equally worthwhile site, "The combovers experience". Take a look and see if you don’t agree that this is the kind of thing that makes the internet…
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Penniless engineer or mindless corporate shill?
While reading the January 2004 IEEE Spectrum, I noticed that the guy that they had been touting as a penniless engineer looked familiar. This advertisement has been in the Spectrum for some time, but it really hit me that he looked familar. Where have I seen this picture before? Then it hit me; this is…