Advogato blog for landonf

7 Jul 2002

Sun, 7 Jul 2002 06:36:27 GMT

crayons are better than computers and books are better than the internet

13 Jun 2002

Thu, 13 Jun 2002 03:45:07 GMT

#cowsay

13 May 2002

Mon, 13 May 2002 04:01:49 GMT

Why do companies continually forget my e-mail settings, and decide that I did indeed opt-in to their "directed mailings."

It's not a very nice thing to do to your customers

9 May 2002

Thu, 9 May 2002 09:06:11 GMT

Dear Diary, I got my job.

9 May 2002

Thu, 9 May 2002 08:57:24 GMT

Stopping for a break, I staggered into a gas station bathroom somewhere near Mt. Saint Helens. The bathroom walls were bare, save one out of place decoration added by an individual with a broad purple marker. It made me smile.

"The act of living is the art of applying past emotions to future dreams"

Perhaps someone else out there will find this inked quip and add their own words.

25 Feb 2002

Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:59:42 GMT

This diary entry contained a comic I created. Then I decided to change the past.

23 Feb 2002

Sat, 23 Feb 2002 23:58:51 GMT

The Olympics
I went to see The Olympics, and it was amazing. I've wanted to go see an olympic event since I was a child.

Watch for me in the 2006 olympics: Speed Skating or Men's Freestyle Skiing ... heh!
http://public.boredom.org/~swift/images/icanfly.jpg
I may look like a dork, but I did stick that landing.

15 Feb 2002

Fri, 15 Feb 2002 08:40:51 GMT

These past few days, I rewrote all MacTCP related code in ShadowIRC to use BSD sockets, so it could be ported to OS X. http://public.boredom.org/~swift/images/shadowirc.jpg

9 Feb 2002

Sat, 9 Feb 2002 09:08:30 GMT

Yesterday I added support for /proc/pid/maps to linprocfs in -CURRENT. It took me a while to get a new -CURRENT machine up, but I did manage to throw something together. A PPro 180, 40 megs of ram, a 10 gig laptop drive held down by a zip tie. Came out of my iBook. Aren't I a lucky devil.

I don't know what's up with this job I want at Apple. I'm very concerned that I won't get it. The fact is, I need a job. I can't convince myself to take something below my skill set - I know I'll be bored out of my mind in a day. I also know that I'd LOVE this position at Apple, and what's more, I'd be a wonderful addition to their team of developers. I'm cute, sweet, I have a nice smile, I follow style(9) to the letter. What's not to love? :o)

25 Jan 2002

Fri, 25 Jan 2002 09:34:32 GMT

brain teasers
I spent some time today doing some C brain teasers.
Anyone know a good location for some challenging ones?

Do not reuse code from this solution, you'll regret it.
void main(int argc, char **argv)
{

char *string = (argv[1] ? strdup(argv[1]) : strdup("This is a very long test string")), *p = string, *e = string, *s;
while(*p != '\0')
{
while(*p != ' ' && *p != '\0')
p++;
s = p--;
while(p > e)
*e ^= *p ^= *e++ ^= *p--;
p = s;
e = ++p;

}
printf("%s\n", string);

}