Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
13nov2005
What time is it around the World? Too late ;-)
Turing’s Cathedral, A visit to Google on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of John von Neumann’s proposal for a digital computer. By George Dyson.
How Base64 Encoding Works by Heinz Tschabitscher.
Schism is a partial evaluator for a pure (side effect free) subset of Scheme, written primarily by Charles Consel.
The Secret Art of Futamura Projection by William Taysom. You will want to read this. “Partial evaluation is dark magic. Darkest of all is Futamura projection. Its most potent form, the third Futamura projection, allows the creation of a compiler generator from the partial evaluator alone.”
Yeah, she could drag me
over the rainbow,
send me away
Down by the river
I shot my baby
Down by the river,
Dead, oh, shot her dead.
— Neil Young, Down By The River
Microsoft Lauds ‘Scrum’ Method for Software Projects, great. Wonder if that helps.
def this_method; p caller; caller.first[/`(.*?)'/, 1]; endPillow Fight!, today, Dundas Square, 2 PM, Yonge & Dundas, Toronto.
Pie rule on Wikipedia, “a meta-rule commonly used in abstract strategy board games like Hex and Havannah.”
Compression, XML, Binary Infoset by Rick Jelliffe. “XML evangelists may need to spend more time promoting an awareness of how and when XML can be efficiently processed or transmitted rather than kneejerking about the evils of binary.”
E*Trade Patents “Application Server Caching”, Timothy M. O’Brien says. Patent my ass.
John Haller provides Portable {AbiWord, FileZilla, Firefox, Gaim, NVU, OpenOffice.org, Sunbird, Thunderbird}.
And I’m laying out my winter clothes,
wishing I was gone, goin’ home
Where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me,
leadin’ me to go home
— Paul Simon, The Boxer
Beyond office document formats, “the current debate over office document formats misses the bigger challenge still facing us.” By Jon Udell. Who needs Office anyway…
MacDesktops.com has some nice wallpapers.
The Scarlet Letter, plot overview at Sparknotes.