Archive for November, 2009

Sending small TCP packets on the iPhone

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

WTH is up with the iPhone TCP stack in 3.1.2? Something changed since 2.x (since 3.0?) and I get huge (relatively speaking) lag with small packets even with TCP_NODELAY. Or maybe they’re due more aggressive power management changes? I’ve had to rewrite my network code and event handling to compensate. But even then it doesn’t [...]

Choices

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Months ago, during summer, I was watching Journeyman on Hulu. I’ve been watching a lot of TV lately. I’ve probably watched more in the last year than the couple years before combined. I guess it takes your mind off of things. I read a study somewhere indicating that the fake (one way) social interaction you [...]

Complacency

Friday, November 6th, 2009

By this time next month I will be financially debt free again.
Two and a half years ago, I was flying high. I had a fat salary, some savings, no debt, all while being the sole provider in my relationship. My relationship had hit a bump in months prior, but we were heading in the right [...]