Aaah! There was a fire at Gullifty’s early Sunday morning! I saw the borded up front door on the way into work this morning.
Gullifty’s is known for it’s desserts and Jazz, but I have used it most for good Bloody Marys and for being open late.
Monthly Archives: July 2008
XPath has a lousy equality operator
I just (re-)discovered this bit of stupidity in XPath/XSL. The equal operator will demote node-sets, result-trees, etc. into to strings when compared with a string.
Check out this example: Continue reading
36 Hours in Pittsburgh – NYTimes.com
The New York Times has published a good list of fun things to do in Pittsburgh:36 Hours in Pittsburgh – NYTimes.com.
When I visited Pittsburgh for a job interview in the summery of 2004 it seemed like everyone was surprised I wanted to see what Pittsburgh had to offer. The hotels staff (at the downtown Marriott) had to look hard for a map of downtown. The map, from the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, didn’t even include information on the strip district; an area with lots of fun shops which is walkable or bus-able from downtown.
My last interview of the day included a manager spending pretty much the whole hour telling me how Pittsburgh isn’t that horrible and how it doesn’t have pollution anymore (the steel miles were closed down more than 20 years ago). He didn’t tell me about all the museums and other fun things, just focused on how it wasn’t horrible anymore.
Pittsburgh certainly suffers from an inferiority complex. But don’t let that deter you, Pittsburgh is a great place!
Ciao!
Designed For Reliability
I used to work for Tandem. These computers were amazing and the only thing that’d take them down was human error…
Here’s a “Daily WTF” about the Tandem computers. The comments are fun, too: Designed For Reliability
Ciao!
P.S. Yes, I’m having fun with the “Press This” feature in Wordpress 2.6.
Dr. Horrible
For those that are fans of Joss Whedon, he has started releasing his mini/limited-time/videopod/series, “Dr. Horrible’s sing-along blog“.