How to Build a Quine
A quine is simply a program that prints itself. This is my explanation of how they are built. Writing a quine seems like a chicken-and-egg problem but if you really enforce the physical separation …
New photos
After sitting on a few rolls of film for the past few months, I finally got them developed. Check them out here.
Deep City Records: Them Two - "Am I Good Man"
Really enjoying the whole Deep City catalog.
Shipping Software
Shipping ordinary software on time is damned hard. Shipping great software in any time frame is extraordinary. Shipping great software on time is the rarest of earthly delights. – Jim McCarthy, …
IE6 will never go away (it seems)
The Yahoo! User Interface team updated their Graded Browser Support and IE6 is still alive as an A-grade browser, and that doesn’t appear to be changing anytime soon. The Graded Brower Support, …
Truth about Software
I spend a lot of my time thinking about software develoment, keeping up with what works for other people and what works for me. I’ve recently read Peopleware and Code Complete, and I’ve …
How many fume cupboards are needed?
I’ve recently been brushing up on my statistics by reading Principles of Statistics by M.G. Bulmer. I came across a problem and since I wrote some code to check my answer, I figured I’d …
twitter-last-status
It was a night of firsts. I wrote my first Twitter widget. It is the ‘Latest Tweet’ widget on the far right column of the page that uses Twitter’s public JSONP API to pull in my last …
FeedBurner
Switched over to FeedBurner for my feeds. Let’s see if this works.
SICP and Lulu.com
I’ve been wanting to read SICP for awhile, but with lots of other books on my to-read list, as well as the $50 dollar price tag for a used copy, I’ve put it on hold. The price, while …