文書は英語ですが、写真は共通
(though I'm taking a break from blogging for a while)
Archive for September, 2006The new edition of my book Mastering Regular Expressions was reviewed on Slashdot today, where the reviewer generously granted me a rating of "11 out of 10." In looking over the comments people left during the course of the day, I appreciated the kind words many chimed in with about the book. I found it amazing, though, even by Slashdot standards, the amount of ignorance displayed in a few of the comments. Here's an excerpt from such a comment: Now, if you know much of anything at all about modern-day scripting languages and their regular-expression implementations, you know [...] 
View full post » Every so often I look at my server logs to see by what means people find their way to pages on my blog. One thing that's long bothered me is that people's Yahoo! and Google! searches often bring them to my blog's home page, rather than to the post-specific page containing the text that was matched by the their search. For example, my previous post contains the text "There's a camera collector in Massachusetts....," and because my blog home page contains my five most-recent posts, that post and its text will stay on the home page until [...]
There's a camera collector in Massachusetts who often finds undeveloped film in the cameras he acquires, so he develops it and posts the pictures. They're often from the 50s or 60s, but some are much older. In any case, I found his page of "found" photos to be interesting. 
View full post » Today was Anthony's first "bento day" of the new semester. His preschool started last week, but they were all short days. Finally today the kids could bring lunch ("bento" means "boxed lunch") to eat at school. As I wrote in the post "It's All About the Bento" when he has his first bento day last May, the bento is a big deal, and Fumie puts a lot of effort into making them fun, easy, and healthy. Today was no exception. As is normal, Anthony ate the thing clean, down to the last piece of rice. His bento box is [...] 
View full post » A Japanese brokerage company mis-entered a stock sell order on their computerized trading system. They transposed the number of shares they wanted to sell with the price-per-share at which they wanted to sell, offering to sell 610,000 shares of such-and-such a stock for 1 yen each, rather than the intended offer to sell one share for 610,000 yen. In dollars and cents, that's an offer to sell over half a million shares of a stock worth over $5,000 for less than a cent each. Ouch. Doing the math (¥610,0002) one calculates that it could have been [...]
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