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Harmonica
I got a harmonica (diatonic, C scale). The store was out of guide books, so I had to go to the internet. So, I turned to the internet for help. I practiced a little, and by now I can play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". -
Printing
"You young people, with your printers and what-not. In my time, we had to put ink on the page manually. We called it 'writing'." -
Google advertising
A while ago, Paul Graham made the comment that Google treats advertising the way a drug dealer treats drugs: they sell it, but they don't use it. Well, it seems that google has started smoking:
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Programming Baskets
Tim Bray recently wrote a rant entitled XML is Too Hard for Programmers. XML rants (pro- and con-) kinda got old 3 years ago, but in this entry, he did have an interesting point: the division of programming into "baskets": the scripting tribe, the O-O factory and the close-to-the-metal gang. One interesting point Tim threw in without following up ( Read more... ) -
Filkers' Independence Day BBQ
A bunch of filkers (and other assorted geeks) met to eat, drink and be merry on Israel's birthday. Summarizing the experience is too hard, but here are several assorted quotes ( Read more... ) -
PSA: Biology facts
Mushrooms are not plants.
Whales are not fish.
Spiders are not insects.
Every time you make those mistakes, God kills a kitten. Please, think of the kittens! -
Fox's song
TTTO Michelle Dockrey's wonderful "Mal's Song"
(This could use some cleanup...but I've found if I wait for cleanup, I never publish stuff.)
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On Nevow
Today I had an occasion, after a long dry spell, to write a web application (the web interface for our product). This is my first non-trivial application in nevow, and I just want to say -- WOW. Nevow is every bit as good and as fun to use as I remembered. Last time I did not get to use slots -- slots are awesome. , despite being kind of clumsy, is ( Read more... )