The trouble with Pandora and Last.fm...
you setup a radio station with your favorite music, spend months thumb-ing up and down various songs and eventually it recommends Macarena to you...
you wonder what went wrong, and where...
P.S. May be this should've been presented as an xkcd comic.
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Friday, March 14, 2008
Detecting computer addiction
People, especially my wife, have been telling me that I spend way too much time fiddling with computers, so much so that it borders on obsession. There have been times when my wife would be telling me something but I'm so engrossed in something that I actually don't hear a word of what she's saying. Yet, I never believed that I was at the point where I needed help. Until recently...
The first sign was a few days ago, when while chatting I needed to quote another person, and since the quote was a bit long, I wanted to type it out on multiple lines and I entered """ to indicate a multi-line string.
And today I was reading a headline on Slashdot, FBI Hid Patriot Act Abuses and the first thought that goes into my mind is: Why is HID written as Hid?. Once that thought was popped off the stack, the next thought that popped up was: Why is FBI interested in HID?
To those who're laughing at me right now, and mentally agreeing that I need help, I've got news for you. You understood what in the world I was talking about and you'll probably be like me someday soon.
And as for those who've no idea what I'm talking about. The """ is from Python programming language. And HID is Human Interface Devices in computer parlance.
The first sign was a few days ago, when while chatting I needed to quote another person, and since the quote was a bit long, I wanted to type it out on multiple lines and I entered """ to indicate a multi-line string.
And today I was reading a headline on Slashdot, FBI Hid Patriot Act Abuses and the first thought that goes into my mind is: Why is HID written as Hid?. Once that thought was popped off the stack, the next thought that popped up was: Why is FBI interested in HID?
To those who're laughing at me right now, and mentally agreeing that I need help, I've got news for you. You understood what in the world I was talking about and you'll probably be like me someday soon.
And as for those who've no idea what I'm talking about. The """ is from Python programming language. And HID is Human Interface Devices in computer parlance.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Kittens and heart attack
Here I was shedding my mandatory semi-annual crocodile tears on the inactivity in my blog, and the futile-but-mandatory resolution to make amends to it, that I come across a cat and heart attack article linked from Slashdot.
The article states that the researchers have found that having cats as pets reduces your risk of heart attacks. Now knowing our cats, I know my wife would strongly disagree to this. And looking at some of the really hilarious comments on Slashdot, it would seem that many cat-owners do agree with her rather than the research's findings. If anything the cats seem to be hyperactive at 4:30am in the morning, thus waking us up. Now how can that not lead to stress and heart attack? Is that their sinister way of imposing on us the age old adage "Early to bed, early to rise..."?
The article states that the researchers have found that having cats as pets reduces your risk of heart attacks. Now knowing our cats, I know my wife would strongly disagree to this. And looking at some of the really hilarious comments on Slashdot, it would seem that many cat-owners do agree with her rather than the research's findings. If anything the cats seem to be hyperactive at 4:30am in the morning, thus waking us up. Now how can that not lead to stress and heart attack? Is that their sinister way of imposing on us the age old adage "Early to bed, early to rise..."?
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