Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
10jan2008
Sequel Interview with Sharon Rosner, by Pat Eyler. “I wrote Sequel mainly because I tried ActiveRecord and it really didn’t fit what I wanted to do.”
Tutorial Materials for Programming Language Research, from the POPL08 Tutorial. (Great material, take the time.)
My mother told me, don’t ever change
You’re original, in your own way
My mother told me, don’t ever change
You’re original, got your own path
— Leftfield, Original
Instant-runoff voting (IRV) is a voting system used for single-winner elections in which voters rank candidates in order of preference. Fair, easy to memorize and apply.
Happy Birthday, Donald Knuth!, I wish the same.
Steal This Wi-Fi, Bruce Schneier says: “Whenever I talk or write about my own security setup, the one thing that surprises people – and attracts the most criticism – is the fact that I run an open wireless network at home. There’s no password. There’s no encryption. Anyone with wireless capability who can see my network can use it to access the internet. To me, it’s basic politeness. Providing internet access to guests is kind of like providing heat and electricity, or a hot cup of tea.” Yay!
Underneath the chilly gray November sky
We can make believe that Kennedy is still alive and
Were shooting for the moon and smiling Jackie’s driving by and
They say ‘good try’
Tomorrow Wendy is going to die
Tomorrow Wendy is going to die
— Concrete Blonde, Tomorrow, Wendy
Kant, Chaitin and the absence of axioms in arithmetic, “Kant maintained that arithmetic, in contrast with geometry, has no axioms, only “practical postulates”.”
Dust-Me Selectors is a Firefox extension (for v1.5 or later) that finds unused CSS selectors. Useful.
Mercurial-easy, UI Love For Hg.