Many people have commented to me that I seem very “decisive” — which, come to think of it, is entirely too close to being the decider, so I’ll try not to be offended — but the illusion is quite thin if you know me well. Take, for example, the recent house purchase. From a distance, it appears as though I made a snap […]
Categories: personal
Tagged: decision, psychology, realestate
Two days ago, I took the plunge and made the formal decision to buy a house. I signed a contract on a new place committing to close before the end of March. I’m not sure if I’m numb, terrified, happy, sad, excited or all of the above.
Categories: personal
Tagged: finances, house, realestate
It doesn’t seem like much to ask. A tiny little thing. All I wanted was to get a copy of the PPD for my Samsung ML-2151N that has been my trusty laser printer for many years. I had misplaced it somehow, and couldn’t find the driver disk anywhere. So, naturally, I went to the Samsung website looking for it. What […]
Categories: technology
Tagged: mac, macosx, postscript, ppd, printer, rant, samsung, technology
We all have weird obsessions that we deal with. Mine is random numbers. Don’t ask. Anyway, I’ve also been playing with some simulations and crypto work and needed a better source of entropy. So, after a bunch of research, I decided to buy an Entropy Key from Simtec Electronics in the UK. They were the only ones who […]
Categories: programming
Tagged: crypto, cryptography, entropy, mac, osx, randomness