Simon's Musings

After failing to qualify in round 1A  in this year's Google Code Jam, I had two more chances to advance to round 2. Round 1B In roun...

Having survived (like 96% of all Lispers and 81.5% of the wider population) the Qualification Round , I'm trying to pass the first ...

This year I registered for Google Code Jam again. The qualification round was this weekend, and I submitted solutions in Lisp.  This time...

Panopticlick illustrates that even without cookies etc., modern browsers usually send enough specific-enough information to Web servers ...

Context I help operate two geographically separate OpenStack/ Ceph clusters consisting of 32 servers each, of which 16 (per cluster...