http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/ tail -f /dev/mind > blog en-us cmiller@pastiche.org 2008-06-25T11:05:17+10:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2008/06/25/advice_to_public_speakers_using_microphones The best way to use a microphone is to pretend it isn't there. Talk to the audience, project your voice like you're speaking to a room full of people, and just put the microphone in the way. (377 Words) 2253@http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/ nerd 2008-06-25T11:05:17+10:00 http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2008/06/06/with_ninjas Is there anything that _can't_ be improved with the addition of ninjas? (53 Words) 2252@http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/ personal 2008-06-06T12:34:28+10:00 http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2008/05/07/inbox_hero Hello. My name is Charles Miller, and the last time I regularly cleared my inbox was 1997. Until now. (785 Words) 2251@http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/ nerd 2008-05-07T12:34:38+10:00 http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2008/04/24/direct_fail How did they manage to send me the same flyers three times on the same day? Well, how about by getting every single instance of my (previous) address wrong in a slightly different way? (88 Words) 2250@http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/ personal 2008-04-24T09:11:24+10:00 http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2008/04/19/cluetrainwreck When a phrasing like this is (a) so unlike normal speech, and (b) repeated so often, it's pretty clear that it's being used as a matter of policy. Some meeting was had to whiteboard the perfect response that sounds concerned and proactive, but admits absolutely no fault on the part of the carrier. (310 Words) 2249@http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/ nerd 2008-04-19T11:37:34+10:00 http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2008/04/18/command_history_meme Feeling old... (17 Words) 2248@http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/ 2008-04-18T12:03:09+10:00 http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2008/04/13/when_life_approximates_xkcd Ways not to answer the question: "Do you love me?" (50 Words) 2247@http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/ personal 2008-04-13T15:48:45+10:00 http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2008/04/11/twitterpated Dear Sir and/or Madam, I noticed that you decided to "follow" me on Twitter. Not knowing who you were, and mindful of the possibility you may be a friend, colleague or net.acquaintance using an obscure handle, I visited your Twitter homepage. (219 Words) 2246@http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/ 2008-04-11T08:32:58+10:00 http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2008/04/03/firefox_bug_426702 Never underestimate the power of rote learning. (8 Words) 2245@http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/ nerd 2008-04-03T16:29:25+10:00 http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2008/03/31/the_song_that_never_ends Most companies take great pains to make sure their public-facing statements present the company in the correct light. It's about time lawyers were subject to the same processes. (487 Words) 2244@http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/ nerd 2008-03-31T14:57:01+10:00 http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2008/03/13/trivia The top 20 most listened to theme songs in the last week, as tracked by last.fm. (166 Words) 2243@http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/ personal 2008-03-13T08:05:15+10:00 http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2008/03/12/music_suggestions_anyone Over the last five years or so, my consumption of new music has dropped pretty dramatically. I blame the iPod, which has led me to spend most of my time with my own music collection when I used to listen to the radio and hear new stuff. (100 Words) 2242@http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/ personal 2008-03-12T11:04:26+10:00 http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2008/03/07/an_iphone_sdk_halo_effect If the iPhone continues its strong showing in the smart phone market, there's going to be a new demand for iPhone developers in the mobile space. Which means there's going to be a bunch of people learning Cocoa and the Mac OS X APIs who wouldn't otherwise have given them a look. (168 Words) 2241@http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/ nerd 2008-03-07T21:45:56+10:00 http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2008/03/07/jsr666_extension_unthrowable_exceptions This code is the result of two conflicting factors. On one hand, since the constructor in question takes an arbitrary character encoding, the case of the encoding being unavailable must be taken into account. On the other hand, 90% of code that calls this constructor will be explicitly invoking a character set that is required to be provided with the Java Runtime Environment. (263 Words) 2240@http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/ nerd 2008-03-07T21:24:48+10:00 http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2008/03/04/java_developers A recent post on our internal wiki asked for T-shirt slogans of the style: "Java developers do it with...". I didn't quite stick to the format, but here are my submissions for posterity: (177 Words) 2239@http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/ nerd 2008-03-04T08:58:08+10:00