Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
26aug2006
Off to Munich and Essen, probably no tumblelogging until Monday, September 4. Have a nice break.
Algebraic Topology in Haskell, “But don’t get too excited—this isn’t meant to be an introduction to algebraic topology. Instead it’s a demonstration of how incredibly expressive Haskell is.” Exciting.
Pluto mnemonic device contest results, whee: “Molesting Very Excitedly, Michael Jackson Sucks Underage Nipples.”
WebObjects 5.4 going open source, neat.
Prelude: a Haskell-like functional library, pretty early, but a nice idea.
A Pregnant Man?, another person lived inside a man for nearly four decades. WJW.
I’m Leaving Las Vegas
Lights so bright
Palm sweat, blackjack
On a Saturday night
— Sheryl Crow, Leaving Las Vegas
I Am Not A Terrorist, get the shirt!
Self 4.3 has been released in June 2006 and I didn’t notice it. “Self now runs under Intel-based Macintoshes (as well as PowerPC-based and SPARC-based systems), though it does not yet run on Windows or Linux.”
The Perverse Nature of Performance Tuning, by Uncle Bob. Shattering.
Using Rake as a Library, but why not just use find.rb?
Euruko 2006, the European Ruby Conference, will be in Munich, November 4 and 5, 2006. I’ll be there, and you?
Strongly typed heterogeneous collections, by Oleg Kiselyov, Ralf Lämmel, and Keean Schupke. Somehow must have missed that one.
The B-flat Range, geologic formations shaped by the forces of wind.
ElUnit is a unit-testing framework written in Emacs Lisp. Sounds good.
Hey baby there ain’t no easy way out
Hey I will stand my ground
And I won’t back down
No, I won’t back down
— Tom Petty, I Won’t Back Down
Sketsa is a cross platform vector drawing application based on SVG, needs Java.
avidemux is a video editor for several platforms able to import MP4 files besides AVI and convert audio tracks to AAC with FAAC.
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