Coffee, or Caffeine in general… ah… we’ve had a tumultuous relationship. I remember my first real taste of coffee — blended with hot cocoa on a cold Boy Scout camp-out during a Michigan winter. Then there were the several times I mistakenly thought Mountain Dew would make a good breakfast in high school. (That’s […]

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I’ve added a page to this site describing my GTD set-up, in case anyone might find something useful there. You may find it using the “GTD” link in the menu, or by clicking here.

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In other news from the house-hunting front, we’ve been working with lenders to finance the purchase of a house. Lenders want a lot of information. They want bank statements, driver’s license copies, landlord information, tax returns, income statements, current address, credit card statements, letters of employment and so on. Of course, they also want that […]

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As a corollary to my last post, it’s important to be careful when calculating file seek positions (if you’re skipping around that way). It turns out it’s necessary to cast all of the numbers being used when calculating a seek position to a large integer, such as unsigned long int.
By the way, Rob had some […]

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Any system that encodes values in some set number of places has a limit on the values that can be held. For example, old, mechanical cash registers were physically limited in the number of digits they could ring up. Likewise, modern LCD cash registers are limited by the number of digits available on the screen, […]

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