Shortlog - a log of everyday things

2010-09-05

Andrew and I went to Berkeley Bowl, which has an incredible amount of varied produce. Speaking of which: wow, produce is super cheap compared to meat/cheese. I should eat more fruit and veggies.

Some time I'm going to tabulate exactly how much I spend on things, so I can get a baseline for my current monthly expenses. Then I can do all sorts of fancy analyses on the data.

Learn about computer memory hierarchy speeds with a nice kitchen analogy:

• The contents of your hands are CPU registers (access limited by thinking power)
• Things on the stove or counters are CPU cache (takes about a second to use)
• Things in the freezer in the garage are like main memory (takes about a minute to use)
• And things that you buy on Amazon and have shipped with Prime are like disk storage. (WAY WAY LONGER)

This is actually not quite accurate for orders of magnitude, but hopefully the suffering that is disk access time comes across.

I have now changed all of my website over to HTML5. This consisted of deleting some text inside the <!DOCTYPE> tag for each HTML file. That was easy.