Erik's Blog

As we come in to land, Sirius Spa looks like a giant bonfire, with a huge plume of white smoke streaming out of it. The fire is at the botto...

Review of Twenty Trillion Leagues under the Sea Adam Roberts seems to have a thing about legendary SF&F authors. His Twitter moni...

I read a thought-provoking article, The Generalized Resource Curse The short version of the resource curse is that some countries are af...

Forwards time travel.  Everyone does it.  I just travel faster (by slowing down). I'm not disturbed by those living at full speed:  T...

I have a weakness for cars, let that be said. While I know they are bad for the environment, dangerous for the ' soft traffic ' and...

Here is a little browser test for anyone that cares. Bug reports welcome. Thanks to Yang Guo for the Chrome 24 and both stack trace tes...

A lot of people are linking to a blog post about V8 memory management , so I thought I would write my own notes on the flags too. --max_...