2009.04.30

log

• Here is the umpteenth post made to my Wordpress in an automated way…
• I guess here is where I put “Hello, world” and for once it’s actually kind of accurate because the post is going where the world can see it.
• So, uh, Hello, world
• Did I fix my idiotic bugs yet?

graphics

• http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=532&type=overview (John Carmack on id Tech 6, Ray Tracing, Consoles, Physics and more)

links,blogs

• http://www.tanashabitat.com/ (Tana’s Habitat - a site Jane recommended for useful information about living on your own. It looks far more suited to her gender than to mine, but it still has some good advice.)

notes,technobabble

• Perl 6 has two main interpreters:
  • Rakudo Perl which uses Parrot VM and PGE
  • Pugs which uses Haskell (and Hugs or GHC)
• Stuff about Erlang I should remember:
  • shared-nothing, async message passing
  • single assignment
  • strict or eager evaluation (as compared to lazy evaluation like in Haskell)
• Stuff about Smalltalk I should remember:
  • “Messaging” is more important than “objects”

books

• The Burgomeister’s Books, a large library of ebooks; you have a borrowing quota but items are downloadable and in open formats
• The story of stuff, a flash video Joc sent me; it’s kind of long but worth the watch

comic

• This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow - a webcomic and blog I first came across in Citybeat, but came across by accident later