Programmer’s Paradox

Let it be a lesson to me never to blindly follow a spec from Mozilla again, without first testing it in Internet Explorer, because of course Mozilla and Microsoft don’t implement a specification the same way, even if it is one as simple as open search.
There was a bug with the Lulu.com search bar with [...]

Can someone explain to me why TextEdit doesn’t automatically disregard rich text formating in HTML files?
I wanted to make a few simple changes to some HTML files so I grabbed the closest and simplest tool at hand on OS X, TextEdit.  After a few minutes editing, I lost about half an hour wondering why Firefox [...]

Last night I had a free evening, so I opted to do a project I’ve been meaning to do for a while: write the code needed to put a Lulu.com option in the search bar you likely see in the upper right corner of your browser.  It operates just like the Google option that is [...]

I opted to join the OpenId crowd.  Do I really have any use for OpenId?  No, not really.  Now that I have it, I’ll see where I can use it and start trying to utilize it.
Here’s the link to my OpenId page, for your perusal:
http://openid.programmersparadox.com/mmzyk
I signed up with myOpenId, but that might not be obvious [...]

Picked up on the Internet history meme from Tim Bray.
Here are my results:
~ markmzyk$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s \n”, a[i],i}}’ | sort -rn|head
67    ls
54    cd
31    erl
25    vi
22    pwd
13    exit
7    sudo
7    ./configure
6    cp
4    source
Nothing exciting what so ever.  Hadn’t realized I’d kicked off Erlang 31 times.  I’ve been working in it more [...]