Monthly Archives: May 2007
Insulted!
I was just insulted. By a paperback. The book that insulted me was “Five equations that changed the world” by a Dr. Michael Guillen in 1995. His psychologizing take on Newton’s youth was demeaning to the reader’s intellectual capacity, and … Continue reading
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Programming polyglossia ahead, new project
Thorbiorn has started the practical parts of his amazing programming language project called Project Polyglot. Read more at Thorbiorn’s now-actually-a-little-active weblog. “The ball is rolling.” [tags]programming,programminglanguages,projectpolyglot[/tags]
Pinter’s political stuff played in Malmö
A friend, who I met via Luisa, just sent me information about the stage design work she has done in the period of time. Keywords are, according to Sarah: Site-specific, literary, installations, video, and an amazing trombone player. So, without … Continue reading
A good book
Today I got “Fascicle 1″ of Don Knuth’s 1999 reworking of his classic 1960s work The Art of Computer Programming. Great book. No fuss, just stuff. I might write more about that here, if I keep reading it. It’s one … Continue reading
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What is an offline computer?
“Without Internet connection, it is only a DVD player.” Quoth Oscar Berg, a wiseguy. Word to the wise.
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unix search-and-replace: rpl (and sed)
Evan showed the world his “weak Ruby script” to find-and-replace in multiple files, and was pointed to the amazing rpl utility. Let’s see what the port maintainer has written about the rpl tool. $ port info rpl rpl 1.4.0, textproc/rpl … Continue reading
IoPython, raw but cool
I nosed around in Io’s “addons” folder, which you also can pull from the Git repository, see the Io homepage. Update: of course, this was reported when it was fresh, with nice examples, too: pinupgeek’s blog is full of Io … Continue reading