The Shakespeare Programming Language

The program starts with a Title. It is followed by the introduction of characters participating in the play. Hence in the program, we can deal with two characters – Romeo and Juliet. The two characters are initialized to zero by the compiler.

The play consists of a single act and a single play. In the scene we take the two characters on the stage. First Juliet speaks, to read the first integer value. It is stored in Romeo. Then it is Romeo’s turn. He starts with a praise which stores the value 4 in Juliet (simply, to add beauty to the program). Then the second value is read and stored in Juliet. Juliet ends the conversation by storing the sum of first and second value in Romeo. It is displayed.

I know how I’m writing my next project, to be sure.

Sometime back in the late 80s/early 90s, Doctor Demento played a record featuring a Henry Kissinger sound-alike being interviewed. The repeated gag line was that a person was “eaten by a snit”. All I can remember at this late date is Kissinger-like voice saying “he was eaten by a snit”. Google, surprisingly, is no help, and neither is the online playlist archive (that I could find); probably because I don’t know the actual name of the track.

Does anyone out there remember this record and possibly know the title?

My Dell Inspiron 600m notebook came with the Intel 2200BG wireless NIC. Since activating WPA (Wireless Protected Access) on my new Linksys WAP54G AP, I’ve gotten a BSoD referencing the 2200BG driver (w22n51.sys) whenever I try to telnet to an SMTP server. A quick Google on ‘w22n51.sys bsod‘ turned up this thread from HP’s Business Support Forums. Apparently Intel knows about the problem and has addressed it in a beta driver, but they are not actually shipping the beta driver even to people reporting the problem. Luckily someone on that thread has made the driver available.
If you are experiencing this problem (if you have the Intel 2200BG wireless NIC and are using WPA on your wireless network), you should install the beta driver from the link on that thread. I did and have seen zero ill effects, and the BSoD problem is fixed.
One caveat: Installing the new driver will clear any WEP or WPA keys you may have saved. You’ll just need to re-enter the keys to connect to your encrypted networks.

Note: This post is from August, 2004. For current information on fixing problems with the Intel 2200BG wireless NIC, visit the 2200BG support page on Intel.com.

We checked out the “Simon Super Chefs Live” event at the Stanford Shopping center today, mostly to see Alton Brown. The autograph line was, and I am not exaggerating, five hours long. We did not get our book autographed. At one point, I’d split off from Jen to drop something off at the car and was coming back to the event area. When I got there, the host was asking trivia questions. The question was, “On the Food Network show ‘Taste’, who was the host?” The show in question last aired something around three years ago. I knew the answer and raised my hand, and was picked. “David Rosengarten!” I shouted. This was correct, and for my trouble I was awarded a toaster. It’s a very nice toaster.

And I blame Amanda Beard, Michael Phelps, Misty May and Kerri Walsh, Paul Hamm, and Carly Patterson. Yes, my name is Andrew and I’m an Olympoholic.