July 2, 2009 – My mum would have bought something like this. Super fail. ]]> http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/07/shared-items-july-8-2009.html/feed 0 http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/07/shared-items-july-1-2009.html http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/07/shared-items-july-1-2009.html#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:43:13 +0000 Jake http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/07/shared-items-july-1-2009.html

July 1, 2009 – Superb. Just as I get an Android phone it turns out that I may get to write Groovy code for it soon. ]]> http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/07/shared-items-july-1-2009.html/feed 0 http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/06/shared-items-june-23-2009.html http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/06/shared-items-june-23-2009.html#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:00:09 +0000 Jake http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/06/shared-items-june-23-2009.html

June 22, 2009

June 18, 2009 – Brilliant.

June 18, 2009 – Lists some of the proposed changes to the Java language in Java 7. Some of the stuff looks very Groovy inspired – in particular the features dealing with collections. Looking forward to this one. Along with closures, it should be a good release to remove some of the pain-points.

June 18, 2009 – A real world application of the traveling salesman problem, with far more constraints than you could imagine. Who would have thought scheduling a league fixture was this hard?

June 18, 2009 – Cool. ]]> http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/06/shared-items-june-23-2009.html/feed 0 http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/06/my-first-stand-up.html http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/06/my-first-stand-up.html#comments Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:38:48 +0000 Jake http://www.jakubkorab.net/?p=184 It’s done! After three months of hard work to build up a set I am officially a stand-up comedian!

The video suffered some technical difficulties during recording. Basically all the really funny bits are missing. Honest! You should have been there! No, not really… It starts with “There was a guy at the train station asking for change…”

I came off stage and had no idea what just happened. Did any of it make sense? Did I miss whole paragraphs? Who knows, who cares. They laughed -- hard -- and that was all that mattered.

For anyone who wants to give it a bash, it’s one of the best extreme sports out there. The fear lasts for weeks beforehand. The pressure to not-choke up, the distinct possibility of public humiliation and the endless self-doubt -- “is that joke actually funny?”, “should I really say that?”, “does this shirt bring out my eyes?” -- all brings together the perfect storm of adrenaline. Awesome!

All the guys out on stage that night were doing it for the first time, and we were seriously buzzing afterwards.

I can’t wait till my next run out! The best fun I have had in a very long time.

“When I told my friends I wanted to be a comedian, they laughed. Well, they’re not laughing now!” -- Bob Monkhouse

June 16, 2009 – Clear and simple explanation as to why pairing is a good idea. Easy to grasp when you do it, but not always as easy to explain to someone else.

June 12, 2009 – No environment’s an island, and we finally get a LINQ implementation on the JVM. Well worth kicking the tires on this one, even if the underlying providers aren’t fully complete.

June 12, 2009 – Having just gone through an exercise in comparing these two similar-but-different products, this is pretty handy.

June 11, 2009

June 11, 2009 – Remixing at its finest. Both video and soundtrack. Amazing.

June 11, 2009 – Awesome. ]]> http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/06/shared-items-june-16-2009.html/feed 0 http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/06/4-days-practice-mirth.html http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/06/4-days-practice-mirth.html#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:40:07 +0000 Jake http://www.jakubkorab.net/?p=175 After 3 months of work from absolute scratch, I have just finished putting together my first stand-up routine. 5 minutes, no fat. Just in time too – the final practice session’s on tomorrow night, and then it’s time to take off the training wheels and face the crowd on stage on Sunday night. It’s amazing what you can come up with under pressure. I think it’s fair to say that I’m absolutely terrified, but at least I know that the material will get me through. Now all I have to do is memorize it, and then not forget it in a haze of public humiliation. No worries!

June 8, 2009 – The music industry fudging numbers on piracy? No, it cannot be true. I love the idea that according to their download data, they’re losing £175 per person in the UK per week. That’s a whole lot of CDs ]]> http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/06/shared-items-june-9-2009.html/feed 0 http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/06/shared-items-june-2-2009.html http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/06/shared-items-june-2-2009.html#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:05:28 +0000 Jake http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/06/shared-items-june-2-2009.html

June 2, 2009 – Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you can’t have missed this. Gaming without controllers! Makes the Wii look like a ball in a cup.

June 2, 2009 – So far so good. I’ve been playing with this, and it looks as though Google have some serious competition on their hands. Some of the features (such as decisions about when to buy flights) seem to be US specific, but nothing particularly new there. I’ll switch over for the week and see how it goes.

May 29, 2009 – Google Wave preview.

May 29, 2009 – Hilarious.

May 29, 2009 – Chat + email + documents + everything else crammed into one tool.

May 27, 2009 – Once upon a time I remember reading on Google’s “about” page that they did nothing but search. Back when I had just switched from AltaVista.

May 27, 2009 – Reminds me of my AI class. ]]> http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/06/shared-items-june-2-2009.html/feed 0 http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/05/shared-items-may-26-2009.html http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/05/shared-items-may-26-2009.html#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 15:55:53 +0000 Jake http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/05/shared-items-may-26-2009.html

May 26, 2009 – The one I’m going to take away is the story of a note from Lenny Bruce – “You’re right, they’re wrong.” Own the stage. For those 5 minutes – it’s yours. ]]> http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/05/shared-items-may-26-2009.html/feed 0 http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/05/169.html http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/05/169.html#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 08:48:53 +0000 Jake http://www.jakubkorab.net/2009/05/169.html My first stand-up show listing just went up on the net this week (http://amusedmoose.com/shows). You can book tickets online. Sunday the 14th at 7:30. Reality has just hit like a sock full of coins. I’m bricking it.