Niall's Weblog

I started taking Yoga classes at the SF Krav Maga centre a few months ago and have been doing it pretty regularly since – usually I do two hours a week, in addition to other training. I must admit that for some time I had a negative attitude toward yoga – the association with [...]

Over at the Peer to Peer Research Institute, we have performed analysis on over 128,959 film torrents. From this data, we were able to extract the most torrented films of 2007. Without futher ado, here is the list:

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
300
Transformers
Ghost Rider
Ratatouille
Shrek The Third
The Simpsons Movie
Sunshine
I am Legend
I now [...]

This evening I was trying to select entries within a specific date range, for example, all torrents for films which had been released in 2007. My query looked something like:

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SELECT name FROM TABLE WHERE date > 2007-01-01 AND date < 2008-01-01

PostgreSQL consistently returned very odd results. As far as it was concerned, Transformers [...]

After a year of Association for Computing Machinery “professional-level” membership ($200 / year) I’ve decided not to renew. Why not? A number of things really rubbed me up the wrong way about the ACM.
First of all, I had been looking forward to having an @acm.org email alias which I could use as [...]