Charles Miller - User Profile

You can learn far too much about me in my weblog: The Fishbowl.

The Fishbowl (tail -f /dev/mind > blog)
Holiday Snaps American food tried to kill me.
Quantum of Solace Quantum of Solace didn't have this gaping hole that made me want to throw something at the screen, but there was still something wrong with the way the movie was put together. You just never felt it was moving towards any kind of conclusion.
License Hacking The Wikimedia Foundation prevailed upon the Free Software Foundation to release a new version of the FDL specifically giving Wikipedia (and wikipedia-like entities) a time-limited option to switch to the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license
WiTFi The upshot of all this, getting WiFi to cover my entire apartment has been a constant battle, one that I've had to solve with no less than five different wireless devices creating three different networks, two in the 2.4GHz band and one up in the heady 5GHz spectrum.
Zombie Attack A Softer World, on planning for a zombie attack.
Operation Two-Notch Left to my own devices, I will consume more calories than my body requires, and thus over the course of time gain weight. Whether this is caused by habit or is wired into my physiology is a moot point: the evidence shows that in the absence of other forces, that's what I will do. My solution, the only one that has ever worked for me, is to create a second force that works to tip the balance the other way.
Empty Boxes: a business idea The customer gets the joy of having a package delivered (and an excuse to get up from their desk and chat with the receptionist) without the expense or hassle of actually buying anything.
…and all places are alike to me Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up the Wet Wild Trees or on the Wet Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.
Nothing is too trivial to test While writing it, I pretty much convinced myself that this code was so simple there was really no point writing unit tests, but as I got close to checking the code in I realised that the first thing my code-reviewer would ask was “where’s the test?”
Everything that is wrong with Facebook apps in one screenshot Throw a spaghetti cat at your friends!
Spring is Sprung Then the language changes, often around the time the outside investors show up. The people who are downloading and using your software are no longer your community, they're the ones who are taking your code without giving anything back. They're the free-loaders.
A Work of Fiction If I was going to write a political thriller, chapter two would go something like this:
On Computer Games as Interactive Fiction This year I had the pleasure of experiencing one of the coolest moments I can recall playing a game, one that actually left me wandering through the house saying "that was so fucking cool", and confusing my girlfriend whose taste in games runs more to beating the crap out of me in Soul Calibur.
Mother's Maiden Name I've always wondered how this became accepted practice. For decades we've warned people not to use easily guessable passwords—dates of birth, names of children or pets—but somehow this is acceptable for password recovery?
Everything that is wrong with YouTube comments in one screenshot I have no words.