Tim Hoolihan

The .Net GAC (Global Assembly Cache). It’s where all shared .Net components can live. However, if you have to step through the code of one of these assemblies things can get exciting… Let’s say that I have a Business Object dll named business.dll and I have it in my GAC. And a project in which [...]

From Wikipedia.org: W. Ross Ashby wrote in his “Introduction to Cybernetics” (1956): “Science stands today on something of a divide. For two centuries it has been exploring systems that are either intrinsically simple or that are capable of being analysed into simple components. The fact that such a dogma as >>vary the factors one at [...]

I like to remap my caps lock key to an extra control key (this can be common practice in the emacs world).  It’s closer to the common keys that are paired with control.  And besides, I only ever turn on caps lock by mistake.  Recently, while installing Ubuntu on a box, I was looking for the [...]

Legs in Pain, originally uploaded by thoolihan. I completed the Cleveland Marathon on May 17th in 4:33. More pictures to come…

Statler and Waldorf, originally uploaded by thoolihan.

Won the ’09 Shootout, originally uploaded by thoolihan. My brother and I won the Shootout this year at KSU golfcourse. We were 6 under scrambling 18 holes.

I finished reading Flatland. It’s a parable-style story about dimensions and geometry. As exciting as that sounds, it’s really good. I recommend it. You don’t have to be a math nerd to read it. I read the annotated version, but pretty much read the story straight-through, only using the notes when something struck a chord. [...]

A couple of bad coaching examples from the last week. Maybe they’re seeing something I don’t see. San Diego has 4th and 2 (maybe 4th and 3?) in their own territory with 3:00 left. They have 2 timeouts. Obviously, if they go for it, it’s the ballgame. Coaches don’t want to the whole game to [...]

I like it.

Backups and local media streaming just got a whole lot faster.