kchodorow

Revisionist history

I’ve switched out the first ~10 cartoons, and replaced them with one-shot gags. So there are a bunch of new comics to read, starting with the first one. I’ve always preferred doing The Far Side-/New Yorker-style cartoons, but when I started this site, I thought I should do an ongoing story with characters and plotContinue reading “Revisionist history”

PHP Extension Wiki

I started a wiki on this site (http://www.kchodorow.com/php) to write down all the stuff I learn about writiing PHP extensions. If anyone else has experience with them, feel free to add or edit articles. Some basics: a PHP extension is written in C. In fact, PHP itself is written in C, so there’s a lotContinue reading “PHP Extension Wiki”

From Russia with Bugs

My Windows partition got a virus. Ugh. Somehow I’ve managed to avoid this, I’ve never gotten a virus on any of my computers before. Anyway, being the geek I am, I decided to get it off my computer without any of this fancy-shmancy (expensive) anti-virus software. My journey: 1. I tried to edit my registry.Continue reading “From Russia with Bugs”

Get on the bus, Gus

I booted into OS X today and tried running the unit tests for my PHP driver. It chugged away for a while, then gave me “bus error”. Great. Gotta love C error messages. I narrowed it down to when I insert 253 or more elements into MongoDB. Now, that number was suspiciously close to 256,Continue reading “Get on the bus, Gus”

Got Mongo Working on Hostmonster!

This was written in April of 2009. It is very out of date. See http://rcrisman.net/article/11/installing-mongodb-on-hostmonster-bluehost-accounts for more up-to-date information (as of August 2010). Keep in mind that shared hosting with Hostmonster is very lame. They only lets you run a program for 5 minutes before killing it, so it’s fairly useless to install MongoDB unlessContinue reading “Got Mongo Working on Hostmonster!”

VM of Death and Doom from Hell

On Friday at work, I wrote a short post extolling the virtues of VMWare. It was freakin awesome. I had to debug a problem a user was having on a 3-year-old version of an obscure Linux distro, so Eliot (my boss) suggested using VMWare. It was so cool. I found a site that actually stillContinue reading “VM of Death and Doom from Hell”

Another comic

I finally put up another comic. I’ve been delayed for two reasons: first, I’ve been really busy with work. I’ve done some major work on the PHP driver, so it should now be easily installable on Linux and Mac (it’s also faster). Second, I’ve been wanted to add a “one shot gag” section, which requiresContinue reading “Another comic”

Zen and the Art of Sewing Machine Matinence

(Which is a terrible book, by the way.) I read Schneier on Security, which is an interesting blog about security and squids. (Wait, is the plural of “squid” just “squid”?) See, every Friday he post something squid-related, and last week it was an 8-foot squid pillow. Well, obviously I had to make one for myself.Continue reading “Zen and the Art of Sewing Machine Matinence”

Slug Sex

Keeping with this website’s themes of mollusks and dating… Live, nude mollusks! An entertaining, educational, very strange video about how slugs have sex. Not for the faint of heart. There’s more mucus involved than you can even imagine:

#1 Google Result!

I am the first result for “snail in a turtleneck”! (Okay, not terribly surprising.) What was really entertaining was the ads it generated, though: Target: for the finest in snail turtlenecks.