Chris Garrod

mailto:cc2.9.cspamgarrod@mamber.net, Chris Garrod is a retired geek, one of TheHumbleProgrammers, and was the Minister of Networks at the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics http://igpp.ucsd.edu/ He wandered in here in late March of Y2K and after he CorrectedTypos successfully, he became hooked on wiki. Later that year, the OperatingSystem PlanNineFromBellLabs was released as OpenSource! Both vie for his attention. Plan9 often gets the lion's share.

20090822 several of the http://ckg.ucsd.edu/ links below are BrokenLinks due to some conflicts at my former workplace. Resolution is still not on schedule. Chris is working to resolve both conflicts.

If you haven't looked at ExtremeProgrammingRoadmap yet, you haven't learned why most of us are here. It may have kept me from many of my (more than) tangential pages that are not as extreme.

These are some useful BookMarks for ChrisGarrod - I keep them here because c2.com is the shortest URL I can remember.

I once resurrected my wiki from a disastrous deletion by a now retired CowOrker. Most of MyWiki came back online at http://ckg.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/ChrisGarrod, but then I was laid off into retirement, and still lack a website that is online all the time.

20070912 My wiki's most recent upgrade is that it now does TabDelimitedTables, simply by treating every line with tabs in it to be part of a table. If a line has the same number of tabs, it's part of the same table. Look at http://ckg.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/ChrisGarrod?MacMagic, which is the raw /usr/share/file/magic from MacOsX 10.4.10, I did no massaging at all, it's sprinkled with tables and other stuff that ought to look better with a <pre> but did not need it. Other manufactured tables are at: http://ckg.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/ChrisGarrod?SansNetBlock or http://ckg.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/ChrisGarrod?EarthQuakes or http://ckg.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/ChrisGarrod?RsyncSummaryMonday

Other places where he has been (noted here so we can FixYourWiki or Our Wiki - That's fixed like a car, not fixed like a cat ;-)

SpacesBetweenWords
They aren't there in WikiWords -- ZenKoan?
OperatingSystems
Why do they have to keep getting bigger? 9grid at http://plan9.bell-labs.com/9grid/index.html
PlanNineFromBellLabs
OpenSource complete download including binaries for the x86 is only 65Mbytes! Check out the new simpler security model: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/auth.html It has been completely ReFactored
InfernoDevelopers
The InventorsOfUnix went on to invent Plan9, and Inferno, and now some are at Google
GnuMake
My most powerful assistant is invoked by cron dozens of times every day
WhatIsRefactoring
a wonderful hint from the wiki
HtmlTables
TabDelimitedTables are the simplest objects understood by both man and machine - Of course, machines understand nothing but sometimes they do the right thing anyway.
HaiKu
I have contributed occasionally, but it's probably not worth the click
KeyboardClaws
A compendium of those things like CtrlAltDelete

Book List: See BookShelved: http://bookshelved.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ChrisGarrod

I have invited the following people to c2.com's wiki: WelcomeVisitors JacobCohen EricScott HalSkelly? RobertBullard? StevePiper? AllanSauter? DrewSchaffner? DavidSmith? RobertMartineau? KevinWulff? BrentGilmore 20010119 MarkKessler? 20010302 ChristineCampbell? RalphLewin? 20010517 DonGarrod? 20010615 NormanBarth? 20010619 WmSeffens? 20010803 CrispinHollinshead? 20010830 PatrickRusso? 20010919 PeterShearer? 20010920 MikeSanford 20131117 I spoke with him today. 20010921 DavisThomsen? 20011004 JasperKonter 20011012 WayneChen? 20011213 GeorgeBackus 20020104 RobertParker? RobNewman? 20020424 KentLindquist? 20020628 DebiKilb? 20020803 SteveWandel? 20030507 MikeMcClune? 20031002 KristofferWalker? 20031107 EvBingham? 20040415 PhoebeUnderwood 20040729 NancyBachman 20050322 DavisThomsen? 20051014 SofiaAkber? 20061101 BrentWheelock 20061212 StuartBorthwick? 20080403 JillPearse 20080605 JeffBytof 20090127 AdrienArnulf? 20090415 EthanSoutarRau? 20090506 PaulPanarese?

You may wonder what the cryptic looking numbers above are. It's a pattern I have been using since the late 1990s, and with it I am y10k compliant! See http://ckg.ucsd.edu/~garrod/y10k/ -- BrokenLink

I prefer this format over ISO 8601:1988 since it has less punctuation, and can be parsed as a single number: 20061005.22070807 especially in a 64 bit environment.

I have designed a new pattern, which is as uniquely recognizable as my DateStamps above: see if you can guess what this is: 32.82541nw117.22279 ??

Not a bad pattern at all. It is a geographic coordinate, so precise that I was able to determine the precise location to be a home of an identifiable married couple. The Internet does not provide much privacy.

My wife probably thinks that it's too precise. Don't tell her. She surfs elsewhere.

Your comments are welcomed and occasionally responded to: WikiMailBox 20070302 I did a bunch of refactoring - or just turning blue of DateAndDarwen -- I haven't read them yet, I'm just getting ready to. Other comments are welcome. My refactoring fingers are tyros. 

 8/2/2007 = 0.001993
 8-2-07 = -1
 8-2-2007 = -2001
With those delimiters, computers DoTheMath. 20070802.2110 ckg

20070808: 8-8-2007=2000 (Of y2k fame) 8-8-07=-7 8-8/7=0 8/8/2007=0.0004982 Tonight JamesGosling lamented the CalendarApi and the complexities that historians demand. I think my DateStamps are good enough for anything in the UnixEpoch? and perhaps another API needs to be invented.

20070817 Computers do the math when they see delimiters like - and / 

 8/17/07 = 0.067227
 8/17/2007 = 0.0002344
 8-17-07 = -16
 8-17-2007 = -2016
20080119 another example 
 1/19/2008 = 0.0000262
 1-19-08= -27
 1-19-2008 = -2026
20080209 another example 
 2/9/2008 = .0001106
 2-9-2008 = -2015
 2/9/08 = 0.02777777... -- isn't it curious that many often keep the leading zero on the year?
 2-9-08 = -15
 20080328 Do the math: just home from Europe: 28/3=9.33333.....3/28=0.1071428...
 20080808 BeijingOlympics? 8/8/08=0.125 8-8-08=-8 8/8/2008=0.000498
 20080905 Convert Fahrenheit to Centigrade with these 9/5=1.8 5/9=0.55...
 2008-11-07=1990
 2008/11/7=26.078
 11/7/08=0.1964..
 8/11/08=0.09090909... a repeating decimal and a palindromic date if you drop the 0
 2009/1/30 = 66.966...2009-01-30 = 1978
 2009/07/01 = 2872009-07-01 = 2001 ArthurC.Clarke isn't that a spooky thing for it to be?
 2009/11/26 = 7.0242009-11-26 = 1972 Happy Thanksgiving
 2009/12/09 = 18.6 = 2009/09/12
 2010/7/4 = 71.792010-7-4 = 19997/4/10 = 0.175
 20100704 = 2^5 * 13 * 211 * 229
 July2010 has 4 PrimeDays: 20100709 20100713 20100719 and 20100721
Let's stop letting computers do the math when that's not what we intend. It is a pattern -- YyyyMmDd.HhMmSs: a point in NonRelativisticTime? -- after all, and that's why many of us came here. Or what the rest of us are learning still...

20131023 I have a new home computer! Moby replaces Minnie. 2013/10/23 = 15.4846

From another pattern: 33nw117 -- LatLon

20100708.0833AshevilleNorthCarolina?

20100718.094new wireless network connection being rerouted and built at home.

20100728 the new net works, allowing PlanNineFromBellLabs to run the AbacoBrowser, but it cannot seem to post to this wiki.

20100922.1317LaJollaLibrary

20101003 ChrisGarrod tried to put this into HelloWorldInManyProgrammingLanguages, but that page kept being reverted by computing-technology.derby.ac.uk. What a deterrent to editing. In my ten years at this wiki, this is the first time my changes have been attacked by a robot. RecentChanges discourages me from participation here. HelloWorld in Scala is discussed in several steps on this page: http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/steps.html 

 println("Hello, world, from a script!")

Chris, the spoofing is so widespread that most regulars don't use the UserName at all. Thank you for the contribution on CliffordAlgebra. I try very hard to concentrate on making some contribution here and ignore as much as possible of the noise. -- JohnFletcher

Chris, I have put your contribution of HelloWorld for ScalaLanguage back into HelloWorldInManyProgrammingLanguages in the hope that it will stay there this time. I have not signed it - you may care to do so. My interest in ScalaLanguage has been aroused by the new page DeprecatingTheObserverPattern. -- JohnFletcher

Your comments are welcome here, please add them near the bottom. Correct spelling everywhere. Please annotate your comments with your RealNamesPlease and a DateStamp YyyyMmDd, Thanks!

--- 2013/11/17 = 10.764705 Slash tells the computer to divide.

2013-11-17 = 1985 Dash means to subtract.

20131117 Who knew that this DateStamp was a PrimeNumber? My mother died this morning. Mourning. Move along, these are not the droids you are looking for...

20140113 Dash means subtract: 2014-01-13 = 2000 Slash means divide: 2014/1/13=154.92 1/13/14=0.0055

20141026 not till today. Looking into it now... Happy Halloween. Dots? First dot represents end of integer, decimal portion continues ... second dot breaks the lexer, ends the number, acts like an end of sentence, and perhaps another integer continues. Your above may lex like: 15.10 and 2014 -- at least you recognized that the 2 was the MostSignificantDigit. 

 2014-10-26 = 1978 that was a good year.
 2014/10/26 = 7.75...
 10/26/2014 = 2e-5
 10/26/14     = 0.275

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