Monthly Archives: March 2006

Evil wget

I got tired of wget obeying robots.txt, so I got rid of a lines of code in the source and recompiled. It took me all of 5 minutes, and most of that was waiting for evil wget to compile. So to save others 5 minutes I’ve thrown the new source and binaries up.

Deal or No Deal is a waste of an hour.

My mother always liked the show Deal or No Deal, and I noticed it’s airing again this week. I don’t have a problem with the actual game show program, just NBC’s implementation. First, the show is incredibly drawn out. Also, the show relies on suspense to keep viewers watching through the commercials. The optimal strategy [...]