Monthly Archives: November 2008

Garden Redux (Take Two)

As many of my 3 read­ers will know, we’ve had a veg­etable gar­den on the south side of our house for a lit­tle over a year now. We got quite a bit out of it the last two years but I wasn’t com­pletely happy with the pro­duc­tion. Lots of things did well but things like …

November 30, 2008 – 1:20 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Gardening | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Things I’m Thankful For

Gym­nas­tics mishaps The Inter­net mock­ing Texas Tech’s blowout loss to OU last weekend.

November 28, 2008 – 9:33 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Closures in Clojure and C#

So one of the ways I learn a new lan­guage is to take new things from the new lan­guage and port them back into the old, famil­iar one. Even­tu­ally, I’ll port an entire appli­ca­tion (even though that app may be very small) from the old to the new. I find that I learn things much …

November 28, 2008 – 12:19 am | By Scooter | Posted in Programming | Tagged , | Comments (2)

More Short Change

So for a guy who won the Pres­i­den­tial elec­tion based on a plat­form of change, Obama is start­ing to look less and less, well changey. He’s got an eco­nomic team made up of insid­ers and Clin­tonites, Hilary Clin­ton is Sec­re­tary of State and now we hear that he’s named Robert Gates as Sec­re­tary of Defense. …

November 26, 2008 – 2:57 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Politics | Tagged , | Comments (0)

China’s Deterioration

Unrest isn’t exactly reported with aban­don in China given that the media is cen­sored heav­ily but it’s start­ing to look like the domes­tic sit­u­a­tion in China is dete­ri­o­rat­ing rather quickly. Today’s New York Times reports that China cut inter­est rates by more than a full per­cent­age point overnight. Included in the arti­cle is this key info: …

November 26, 2008 – 8:53 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Economics | Tagged | Comments (0)

Bailout FAIL

So let me get this straight. Given how well the past 5 or 6 bailouts have worked, our gov­ern­ment has come up with a new one that will “bol­ster con­sumer financ­ing”. The the­ory (hor­ri­ble though it is) is that by giv­ing lots of money to banks, they will make financ­ing and credit avail­able to con­sumers …

November 25, 2008 – 4:56 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Economics | Tagged , | Comments (0)

The More Things Change…

I won­der if all those peo­ple who voted for Obama and his poli­cies of change are start­ing to feel short­changed. Bloomberg writes: President-elect Barack Obama said over­haul­ing the fed­eral bud­get is “imper­a­tive” and vowed to elim­i­nate unnec­es­sary spend­ing pro­grams in areas from health care to agri­cul­tural sub­si­dies. He’s start­ing to sound down­right con­ser­v­a­tive in his …

November 25, 2008 – 2:45 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Politics | Comments (0)

More Clojure On Windows

I’m slowly work­ing my way through Stu­art Holloway’s Pro­gram­ming Clo­jure book (and using slowly in that phrase does a ter­ri­ble dis­ser­vice to the word) and so far, I’m enjoy­ing it. I had a run at Com­mon Lisp a cou­ple of years ago and ran into a brick wall for the most part (I think foot­ball …

November 24, 2008 – 9:23 pm | By Scooter | Posted in Programming | Tagged | Comments (2)

TFS Cheatsheet

Here’s a pretty cool cheat­sheet for Team Foun­da­tion Server Prop­er­ties should you find your­self in the unen­vi­able posi­tion of hav­ing to work with the damn thing. And trust me, I feel your hor­ri­ble, chew­ing on glass kind of pain. Via Cool Thing of the Day

November 24, 2008 – 2:37 pm | By Scooter | Posted in Programming | Tagged | Comments (0)

Is The Bush Administration Going After Mark Cuban?

You may have heard the reports that the SEC has charged Mark Cuban with insider trad­ing. There seems to be some evi­dence, anec­do­tal and oth­er­wise, that this may be in retal­i­a­tion for a cou­ple of things. While it cer­tainly sounds like con­spir­acy the­ory, remem­ber, just because you’re para­noid that peo­ple are out to get you …

November 24, 2008 – 9:23 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Economics | Comments (1)