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December 26, 2004
Reflections of the Week Gone Past
Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, and whatever other holidays there might be.
Things I've learned this past week...
1 Do NOT decide that building a custom modified version of PostgreSQL and running it on a production server is a good idea. Yeah, I know, what was I thinking?
2 Airlines suck. It's not as if the holiday travel push was a surprise, they had 360 days to prepare for it. Despite that, and some beautiful weather the entire flight, I was delayed because somehow they had no airplane.
3 The C# garbage collection system cannot be set to a more aggressive scheduler without computations. It can, however, be told that it sucks and should REALLY do it's job RIGHT NOW. This kind of kills app performance, but when your application starts throwing OutOfMemoryExceptions because the GC refuses to clean up that 2MB allocation that was 14 iterations ago... your app sucketh.
4 Trying to buy a TV is awful. I can't fathom paying 5000$ USD for a high definition tv, nor can I see it being environmentally wise to buy a $400 tv only to be tossed out in a year. Yes a 1500$ USD tv can be purchased, but who really wants to squint at 25" LCD screen from about 20' away? Not me.
5 Having missed the initial release of the song, Manu Chao's "Bongo Bong" has completely addicted me over the past month. It's bad. I can even pretend to know the French portions of the song.
Posted by Dan at December 26, 2004 12:12 AM