Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
20oct2007
The Dodo Query Flattening System, by van Ruth, Fokkinga, and van Keulen. “This report proposes Dodo, an approach to automatic translation of queries from the complex objects domain into set-at-a-time operations against data stored in a flattened form.” Layers on MonetDB.
Mercurial 0.9.5 released! Quite some nice stuff.
If he’s in some battle slain
I will die, when the moon doth wane
And if he’s drowned in the deep salt sea
I’ll be true to his memory
— John Riley
Jesus Potter, ROTFLMAO.
blurring.org, “each day (or so) i use my imagination and imprint recordings of these categories below! i began this web almanac in late september, 2004!”
1x umrühren bitte, super deutsch/englisches Kochblog.
Lingon is a graphical interface for creating launchd configuration files and controlling them through launchctl for Mac OS X Tiger.
CronniX is an Aqua frontend to the powerful Unix tool “cron”.
The Google Vanity Ring, by Markus Kison shows the amount of hits you have on google, updated daily. Brilliant.
Fontblog.de, ein deutsches Weblog über Typographie und Grafik, voll von eigenem Inhalt und vielen Illustrationen. Hervorragend.
The water is wide, I cannot cross o’er.
And neither have I, The wings to fly.
Give me a boat, that can carry two.
And both shall row, My true love and I.
— The Water Is Wide
Moleskine Project, lots of art drawn into Moleskines. PNSFW.
Pogue’s Imponderables, good questions by David Pouge, e.g. “Who are the morons who respond to junk-mail offers, thereby keeping spammers in business?”
SVN Time-Lapse View is a cross-platform viewer that downloads all revisions of a file and lets you scroll through them by dragging a slider. As you scroll, you are shown a visual diff of the current revision and the previous revision. Thus you can see how a file evolved, and you can easily find the revision at which lines appeared, disappeared, or changed. Not sure if it does, but it should support multiple columns.
COMFY: A Comfortable Set of Control Primitives for Machine Language Programming, by Henry G. Baker. “We present a new set of machine language control primitives based on Pratt’s suggestion which are simpler to implement tan if-then-else and do-while and are more flexible at te same time.” [sic]
Using Z: Specification, Refinement, and Proof, by Jim Woodcock and Jim Davies. I thought Z was much worse, but this is actually pretty nice (which doesn’t mean immediately useful).
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