Monthly Archives: March 2009

#firsttweet

Posted on 30 March 2009 by tychay

Via Karenism:

Find your first words on twitter

Holly, you created a monster.
(Twitter: blogged before twat.)

Posted in about me, society and culture | 3 Comments

The coolness I am

Posted on 30 March 2009 by tychay

Advice.

My car got another flat, and that’s probably going to cost me. I drive it so little that I’m seriously wondering why I own it. After all, paying for the carport costs me almost half what my car payment used … Continue reading →

Posted in about me, television | 4 Comments

Microsoft’s answer to Ellen Feiss

Posted on 30 March 2009 by tychay

A continuation of my Why WROX failed theory:
Last week…
Me: Lauren is a cheap ass.

“I’m a P.C.” sounds like the person has bladder control issues. “I’m just not cool enough to be a Mac person” is so much better.

M—: … Continue reading →

Posted in business and economics, Macintosh, television | 5 Comments

Financial smackdown

Posted on 30 March 2009 by tychay

Two weeks ago, Matt Taibbi wrote an impressive article using A.I.G. as an anecdote for the failure of the economy.
Last week, one of the most e-mailed articles in the New York Times was the resignation letter of an A.I.G. Financial … Continue reading →

Posted in business and economics, humor | 5 Comments

Bailout redux

Posted on 23 March 2009 by tychay

A continuation of my article one year ago on the bailout:
But in the late Nineties, a few years before Cassano took over AIGFP, all that changed. The Democrats, tired of getting slaughtered in the fundraising arena by Republicans, decided to … Continue reading →

Posted in business and economics | 2 Comments

Circles

Posted on 19 March 2009 by tychay

E-mail from a high school classmate:
Pretty crazy that our class has gotten it together enough to navigate through facebook. But something tells me you’d run circles around us all!
I doubt I’d run circles around anyone.
I probably could if you … Continue reading →

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The origin of my affinity with Asian culture, which is frankly superior

Posted on 18 March 2009 by tychay

Reading a friend’s blog via vanity feed, I thought…
Whee! Me!
I don’t know how many times I’ve successfully argued a woman into dating me. Let me think about it…
I guess I’ll have to go with “None.”
I don’t know why I have … Continue reading →

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setlocale

Posted on 17 March 2009 by tychay

Small little annoyance we found in the process of internationalizing the site for European locales.

setlocale(LC_ALL, ‘es_ES.UTF8′); // Spanish from spain
$a = 1.2;
echo ‘hi’.$a;

This prints hi1,2. Take out the first line and it prints hi1.2 as you might expect.
Not a big … Continue reading →

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How much is your millisecond?

Posted on 17 March 2009 by tychay

At Tagged, I’ve been working on the project for the last month. Basically it allows us to cache dynamic parts of throughout the site and keep the caches from having stale data. Since we call the APIs both externally and … Continue reading →

Posted in PHP, web development | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Vers mini-review

Posted on 17 March 2009 by tychay

In 2000 I asked someone to pick up an alarm clock from Target—something simple, stylish, and loud. Of the three, it was only the latter. Now you can’t unset the alarm! Argh! And I’ve since learned to wake up to … Continue reading →

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