Foolish things done in a moment of weakness

Signed up for Camp NaNoWriMo. Wish me luck.

Failure

The best way to avoid Failure is to fail constantly.

Jeff "Chaos Monkey" Atwood

Gas Station Philosophy

My office-mate's father once saw these instructions inscribed on a humble tire pressure gauge, and I thought it just had to be shared with the world:

Too little pressure causes poor performance, too much pressure causes blowouts.

Remember that as you motor on down the Highway of Life.

Smalltalk Lives

Somewhere in the heart of Reqpro, Smalltalk lives on. Got this notice when I quit:

Quote of the day

functionality is an asset, but code is a liability
- Ted Dziuba on Taco Bell Programming

Keyboards

I don't understand why most generic PC keyboards, you know the kind that plug into a USB port on your PC, lack on-board USB ports themselves. It would be so convenient for things like keyboard lights. Back in the day, my Mac keyboard had Apple Desktop Bus ports, so I could plug the mouse directly into the keyboard.

Compute length of a string in a batch file

set myvar="some string"
rem compute the length of a string
set #=%myvar%
set length=0
:loop
if defined # (
    rem shorten string by one character
    set #=%#:~1%
    rem increment the string count variable %length%
    set /A length += 1
    rem repeat until string is null
    goto loop
)
echo myvar is %length% characters long!

Thanks to poster Secret_Doom on computing.net