Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
30aug2005
Debian Quiz, hum I only knew 22 out of 41 questions (53.7%).
Rubyful Soup is a Ruby port of the hit Python HTML/XML parser Beautiful Soup. Sounds very useful.
I feel sorry
for the earth’s population
‘cause so few
live in the U.S.A.
— Bad Religion, American Jesus
English is essentially Low German plus even lower French minus any sense of culture. — Danny Weir
Interview with John Gruber at GUIdebook. Pretty nice discussion about the OS X interface.
Silverex still makes free XChat2 for win32 binaries. Thanks a lot! (Just mentioned here should I ever need it again.)
Be Right Back, ok, enough Christian jokes for now.
Whirlpool is a hash function designed by Vincent Rijmen and Paulo S. L. M. Barreto that operates on messages less than 2^256 bits in length, and produces a message digest of 512 bits. One of the new hashes getting relevant now.
Religiösität und Transzendenz von Lars Strojny: “Transzendentes Denken, also die rationale Möglichkeit dazu, das Eigentliche zu antizipieren, ist von der Idiotie der Religösität zu befreien, um die Möglichkeit sozialer Emanzipation aufrecht zu erhalten.”
Kitten, Slava’s blog is getting a real blog.
Freedom languages are those languages that put the individual programmer at the center of their philosophical world. says Kevin Barnes.
Thank you India
Thank you terror
Thank you disillusionment
Thank you frailty
Thank you consequence
Thank you thank you silence
— Alanis Morissette
A Surefire Cure For Spam by Carla Schroder. Quite radical, but I can see the point.
Is Ruby more Country or Grunge?, nice idea to compare languages to music genres. IMO, Grunge.
Stalled blog, Joi was busy and people complain why he didn’t play WoW.