You may be wondering where I am, given that I haven't posted a Contra entry for over a month. I didn't want May to conclude with zero entries posted, so I figured I'd take a break here and get you up to speed.

Here's the deal: My publisher has asked for a Fourth Edition of Assembly Language Step-By-Step. It's been thirteen years ( Read more... )

I'm scoping out a fourth edition of my book, Assembly Language Step by Step. I got wind of a simple FOSS utility that could be enormously useful in that effort: SASM (SimpleASM), which is an IDE created specifically for ( Read more... )

• I got caught in an April Fools hoax that (as my mother would say) sounded too true to be funny: That Tesla canceled all plans to produce its Cybertruck. (Read the last sentence, as I failed to ( Read more... )

Last week a friend of mine pointed me toward something I might ( Read more... )

From my Contrapositive Diary entry for February 25, 2004. I have a conflicted relationship with Lent, as I suggest here and may explain in more detail in coming days as time permits.

Ash Wednesday. Lent is not my favorite season. I spent my ( Read more... )

• The weirdest site to cross my desktop recently is this one, which attempts (and fails wretchedly) to demonstrate how to pronounce my last name. Many of my readers ( Read more... )

Well, I asked yesterday, and I got: Reader Bob Wilson reminded me of the blob monster flick H-Man (1958; trailer) a Japanese effort featuring ( Read more... )

...on YouTube. I've been poking around on YouTube in my odd moments, looking for tutorials, music videos, cartoons, and anything else that popped into my head that might be sound and/or video. The other day, I went looking for monsters. And not just any monsters. What I searched for were the monsters I saw ( Read more... )

• Lazarus 2.2.0 is now available for download. It's based on FreePascal 3.2.2. I've been playing with it now for a couple of weeks on both Win7 and Win10 and it's terrific.
• I find this new Chrome technology pretty disturbing ( Read more... )

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