World’s Worst Sorting Algorithm

Kyle and I were talking about sorting algorithms and he mentioned his idea for the worst algorithm ever which is essentially compute every possibly permutation for an array and then scan the list to find the one that is in sorted order. It sounds pretty stupid and a worthy waste of time Naturally I wanted ...

All I can say is…

Weird! and Yuck!

Crazyness

Anji’s parents own a really nice house in Calgary that they’ve been trying to rent out for quite some time. The house has been sitting vacant for about 8 months and, as luck would have it, 2 months from them returning to Canada (for a couple months) the house finally rents. And naturally the renter ...

Web Applications and Good Interfaces

For a long time I’ve loved web applications. They seem like the perfect way to deploy so many tools. It’s great lately seeing so many GOOD new web apps spring up. The GOOD web applications, like all good software, have intuitive user interfaces (for their primary functionality at least). Some prime examples would be Google ...

Have I mentioned I hate Telus?

So I phoned Telus this morning to inquire about (1) cheap evenings and weekends calling, and (2) call forwarding from my cell. I’m curious because I’m expecting to have a fair bit of evening calls to my cell the next bit and would like to try and make that affordable and was thinking either get ...