Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

05nov2005

Sermon at the Soup Kitchen I-IV: How I Was Saved by MichaelCrawford. A story of software development. And C++.

Paper: The hidden cost of the build, Steve links to a paper that tells you how much makefiles cost.

Sometimes I m walking down the street
I want to know everybody
Wanna talk to everybody
Paint your face and hear a story
— Dan Bern, Walking Down The Street

Hackers, Open Source and business models by Ugo Cei. “There still are some great hackers writing Java code, just as there are using C and C++, but we are already on the descending part of the curve.” Good news.

USB MIDI Controller, built by Manuel. Looks geeky.

gallery by alex_ferguson

Yahoo Maps pranks Google, nice nice.

James Boyle: Web’s never-to-be-repeated revolution, how would the world look without the web, anyway?

Linspire will replace Windows with crippled Linux—cheap, South Korea could go from one tyrant to the next.

for f in *; do
  touch -t $(gdate \
  --date="$(/Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo -d "$f")" \
    +%Y%m%d%H%M.%S) "$f";
done

CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons, after all, they are suspect.

Life, Love and MMO’s by metavisual. Must not get hooked.

So it’s fare thee well my own true love,
We’ll meet another day, another time.
It ain’t the leavin’
That’s a-grievin’ me
But my true love who’s bound to stay behind.
— Bob Dylan, Farewell

Buy Books by the Page with Amazon Pages by Sid Steward. Or go to your local library and copy them for free. (Let’s hope you have a big local library :P)

P1010350 by marada

IE 7 will only accept well-formed XML in web feeds, one step forward. Now, if they’d only accept valid feeds…

The end of One Big Text File by Giles Turnbull. He now uses many files, not bad either. So easy it’s gotta be good.