Clerical Rigor

Author: C.J. Collier

  • we are all going to be eaten by patent trolls

    Farm animal noises, I tell you.

  • Parsing English Language (if you consider IRC logs to qualify)

    Haha. I wrote this on October 3rd, 2006. I started logging IRC conversations in 2005. I’ve got lots from #perl and #mono. I wonder if the n’ere-do-wells who frequent those channels will mind me using their public commentary to build an english language parser. I’ll make it “open source,” of course. Erhm, I mean Free…

  • Twitter Updates for 2009-07-24

    @mletterle: Wakey wakey. Need a patch review on #ironruby # @jredville: got time to review a patch on #ironruby? # This just in: Ankit got IronRuby building with xbuild. Details at 11. # @sandyarmstrong: perl -e 's/foo/bar/g' is better! # Come debate the Defense of Marriage Act with C.J. and Aaron! http://is.gd/1Jf7W # @mletterle: you…

  • My daily contribution to the M$ Shills?

    I put the Novell folks who made xbuild work with IronRuby in contact with the M$ folks who write IronRuby. Another contribution from M$ into the growing pit of blasphemy which is Open Source. (it’s a joke. you’re supposed to laugh.)

  • Twitter Updates for 2009-07-23

    @rjbs: not with /perl/ I hope! # I was gonna nominate Schestowitz as Fauxpen Source contributor of the year but he recently mentioned svn. Does he still qualify? # @directhex: welcome to the fail whale. # @jredville: OMG! I'm being followed by another MS Shill! # r @jredville: you and @directhex, @migueldeicaza, @stonemirror, @armchairdude, @bgoldy,…

  • Matthew Broderick broke The Music Man.

    I was reading Lefty’s recent blog post and was reminded (by way of a certain scene) of being pissed off by Broderick’s s/egg/globe/ in the 2003 production of The Music Man. I was going to put the following in the comments, but I decided not to in order to keep the conversation on topic :)…

  • Twitter Updates for 2009-07-22

    @sandyarmstrong: what's in the brownies? in reply to sandyarmstrong # @sandyarmstrong: oh, uhm. in that case. 2000 calories worth, maybe? in reply to sandyarmstrong # /me fanbois Lefty: http://is.gd/1GHtr # @NaFun: lunch? # @lotfan: oooh. thx # Powered by Twitter Tools.

  • @jdub: Thanks for recommending…

    @jdub: Thanks for recommending Twitter Tools. Yay.

  • haha. Good fun. http://bit.l…

    haha. Good fun. http://bit.ly/gMw9J

  • @mjasay: no. someone still ha…

    @mjasay: no. someone still has to run an instance.