The Ice Cream Report

The best of both worlds.

Quote of the week

On the tip jar/mini-bucket on the Coffee & Crepes counter:

"If you fear change leave it here".

2011 Exchange Holidays and DST changes

The update exchange holidays calendar and DST time changes spreadsheet for 2011 is available here.

VIM Visual Cheat Sheet

I found some useful tips in this VIM visual cheat sheet. I assume that others may find this as useful as I did. If you don't find it that interesting you either don't know what vim is or you are a vi guru. If you think you are in the latter category then you are mistaken :-).

BOOKS!

I just discovered that two of my favorite books are available in full on Google Books:

Chaos and Fractals - New Frontiers of Science (2nd Edition)

Introduction to Algorithms (Cormen)

Another good one from alt.humor.best-of-usenet

Since we always need more speed...

Subject: Re: Skype and Webcam
From: Jules
Newsgroups: cam.misc

On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:39:24 +0100, Andrew Feldhaus wrote:
> > Wikipedia and various other highly dubious sources provide
> > back-of-the-envelope estimates along the lines of:
> >
> > 747 cargo limit: About 130 Tonnes
> > Bluray Disc: 50GB/disc, about 25g per disc
> > Hence about: 260 Petabytes (SI prefix) per plane
> > Flight time: 7 hours or so
> > Total bandwidth: Roughly 10 Terabytes, so 80 Terabits, per second

Bit of a pisser if you get there and find that one of the discs is
knackered and you have to retransmit, though.

Wolverine...

A movie about woodcutting in Alaska... Relatively good FX, blood is thicker than water, beasts have a human side, more or less... Go see it, if there's nothing better you can do. I hope that Star Trek is going to be much better.