CSharp Notes and Pitfalls
Things not to do and things to remember about C#...
Just notes and things I want to remember when I'm coding C#. Sometimes these things take hours to catch when the fix is simple, if you knew about them in advance.
RichTextBox.Text - do not update in a background thread even if each thread has its own RichTextBox (building multiple control objects in parallel, for example). This will cause a memory corruption error and either cause your program to crash or hang every so often (which makes it even harder to notice).
Clouded By Doubt
Best Pocket Camera So Far? Sony RX100
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-DSC-RX100-Sensor-Digital-Camera/dp/B00889ST2G/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1348019580&sr=8-2&keywords=sony+rx1
Apparently it's also very small like any other pocket camera but has 20 megapixels (+2 times the usual sensor size for image quality) instead of the usual 10-12. When did that happen?

Scary - can't wait to see when pocket cameras beat professional cameras

Android Resources
Rooting, restoring system apps, etc...
Below are some resources I found useful to clean out my phone and also repair when things go wrong.
Phone Apps
Nothing But Nothing
Dreaming in a Coma
Theme de La Cite des Enfants Perdus OST 1C
Chrome as a Spider
Helping Google find pages not necessarily linked anywhere...
Interesting discussion at Webmaster World on how Google might be indexing pages that are otherwise private or hidden from the rest of the world. Ran into this a few times myself when trying to set up a few heavy-load test scripts, only for it to get indexed and get outside hits as well. <_<Some of the discussion floating around has been centered on the parsing of URLs in gmail messages, as well as indexing pages someone using Chrome or Google toolbar visits.
Can and Saw in Delicatessen

For a while, I could not figure out what the can was actually called (Googling something without a name is hard), but I managed to find the item here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001K7OHNI/
They call it...[More]
Favorites
My interests are pretty wide ranging and hard to bucket, probably from the diversity of works I was exposed to having spent most of my childhood online, in books, and in movies/games. I read pretty much everything I could get my hands on as early as 3rd grade, though it's toned down a bit now. I probably read too much in elementary, going through as much as a hundred novels a year and ending up with 5.0 diopters of nearsightedness by 7th grade (though I've trained myself to never need glasses outside of reading, even in skiing or tennis). For music, I started off more in games, world/ethnic, and (Goa)(Psy)Trance/Techno/DnB before starting to listen to film and...[More]
Fixing a Mac White Screen or Not Booting
Failure to Boot on a Mac, White Screen of Death...
Had a few friends who have run into a white screen on bootup for their Macs after dropping it or having a power failure. Rather than have to send in for repair (time + money), a much easier fix is detailed at The Pabster's Notebook.
The basic idea is that the Hard Drive boot sector got corrupted, but the Mac continues to try to boot from it. The system disc doesn't help because the OS doesn't try to boot from anything else unless the hard drive is first disconnected.
Once that...[More]