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November 21, 2007
The First Anti-Solipsist
Can this cat be saved from evil physicists?Does the cat even exist? I'm reading this interesting Scientific American article last night about Hugh Everett. Everett was the first guy who came up with the theory that there might be more...
November 14, 2007
Take Me To Your Leader
Oyuki, who probably knows her way around a shotgun In an effort to both kill as much time as possible and also to destroy other people's productivity, I ran across an interesting blog article today. Top Ten Hottest Gamers of...
November 12, 2007
Gas Prices: A Perspective
Just a little perspective from the New York Times: Historical price of Gasoline in Inflation-Adjusted Dollars...
F# Blues
So far my experiment in programming in F# has been an unmitigated disaster. Not that I have killed myself trying -- I simply thought that you installed the language and everything would work. Turns out it is not-that-ready-for-prime-time....
November 9, 2007
He saw it too
Pilot, former Air Force officer, and former Governor:"Craft did not resemble any man-made object I have ever seen." Fife Symington has something to tell you. Back in 1997, when half of Phoenix saw strange lights in the sky, he saw...
How Many Fishes for the Gladiator?
I am not a fan of machine translation. I guess for some things it's fine, but I have played around with it off and on for years and it just never seems to work the way it is supposed to....
November 7, 2007
Pon'far Approaches
So. You said what about Ron Paul? It's that time again. The time that every true consultant dreads: American elections are just around the corner. Once you get the bits and bytes of making software happen, you realize that the...
November 4, 2007
Programming with Python - the Other Guys
Let's say you bought a new enterprise software system. Reading the brochure, it does everything except make sliced bread. Now that it shows up, oddly enough, it doesn't seem to do what they promised -- or at least not easily....
November 3, 2007
Curse of the times: Spectatoring
I really need to cut back on my news.yc reading. I've found that it's easy just to become a spectator -- sitting around on the sidelines of everything that is going on, gabbing about my opinion of it....
November 2, 2007
It's the Data, Stupid
With news today that Google is releasing news of its support for OpenSocial API, the light finally went on in my head. It's the data, stupid....