Archive for the 'Misc' Category

The (Forever) Unbalanced Budget

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

I’ve been sporadically following some of the (ridiculous) US presidential campaign, with the help of sites like the indispensable factcheck.org. It seems to me that McCain and the Republicans are freely telling lies outright, while Obama and the Democrats are just avoiding talking about things they’d rather not lie about. Neither approach is particularly reassuring, […]

Random code snippet

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

// // Event handler for a callback that takes no parameters // class EventHandlerBase { virtual void HandleEvent() = 0; }; // // T is the class that will receive callbacks // U is the method signature or something // template <class T, class U > class EventHandler { T _obj; U _func; public: EventHandler( […]

Insulting spam emails?

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

I’ve noticed that spammers seem to have run out of nice things to say. They’ve already explained that I can be well endowed, or please “her” in bed, but for the last year I’ve been getting these belittling emails. The emphasis here is definitely on “little”. The first one I remember was from november of […]