Staticfree Blog

Now, normally, when you do buffer->processor->buffer, you would use buffers that will handle everything flowing through them. Dish racks do not do this. A dish rack does not scale. Usually, they're under-powered for the given load of perhaps two meal's worth of dishes. Problem 2 is that they're not FIFO. You put a dish into the dish rack, it takes a specific amount of time to dry while in the dish rack, then you remove it. But, as you're washing, if the rack can't hold enough dishes, your're forced to either remove the dishes from the rackand dry them by hand or stack others on top of the dishes already in the rack. If you dry them by hand, the entire functionality of having a dish rack is lost. If you stack them, the same problem occurs as the wet ones drip onto the dry ones and make it so you can't take the dry ones out before the wet ones.

I truely hope there's someone out there, designing a dish rack that doesn't suck.

Hopefully, Blogml will come up with a good XML DTD for storing of blogging data fairly soon. At present, I'm using a heavily stripped down version of one of the proposals until something better comes along.

Why is this scary? well, if it isn't blindingly obvious, having all the text you view parsed for keywords by a close-source third party with ulterior motives, perhaps even extracting keywords, is a great security risk. Perhaps you're using some corporate internal software and it decides that some of your private information is a keyword? I really need to stop using insecure public terminals... they're potentially more hazardous than a bathroom at a truck stop in NJ.