Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
28jul2006
System Administrator Appreciation Day is today! Fortunately, I’m not one. ;-)
Ich habe gelesen…, Jörg Kantel: “Dan Browns Sakrileg (Da Vinci Code) ist ein Ärgernis.” ACK.
What Is OpenDocument, by Sam Hiser. The OpenDocument Format (ODF) is an emerging file format standard for electronic office documents.
Got email? I’d rather have a BLIP…, these buzzwords need further investigation.
The laptop stratum: thoughts from (half of) OSCON, by David A. Black. “One thing I find particularly intriguing is the undercurrent of laptop use, especially during the presentations themselves.”
You say your cause is the wreckage of the judged
Do it right or cut it out
You use excuses like you’re working with a crutch
Don’t play dumb, so what’s one
— Dead Moon, Back to Back
LtU turns six! Gratulations and keep up the good work!
Generics as a Library, by Oliveira, Hinze and Löh. “Using our new technique, writing a customizable generic programming library in Haskell 98 is possible.”
Everyone is Here in the Future 2, flash fun by _why.
An Exercise in Meta-Programming with Rails, slides by Lucas Carlson.
Google Code now provides project hosting. SourceForge 2.0?
Upside-Down-Ternet, fun hacks to do when you notice people “steal” your WLAN. WJW.
Treemap on Rails, by Rob Orsini. Treemaps rock.
National sovereignty and the detention market, “Between statelessness and Westphalian sovereignty you apparently get inflatable architecture, instant cities on the carceral edge between two systems of power.” Live in a ballon.
I gazed down in the river’s mirror
And watched its winding strum.
The water smooth ran like a hymn
And like a harp did hum.
Lay down your weary tune, lay down,
Lay down the song you strum,
And rest yourself ‘neath the strength of strings
No voice can hope to hum.
— Bob Dylan, Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Get Famous By Not Programming, by Steve Yegge. “It is nice to hear that some people like what you write, though, since anyone who does anything noteworthy in the world will have critics, and criticism can really sting, even if you have a thick skin, or even a cephalothorax like some bloggers out there.”
Second Discussion Draft of GPLv3 Released, links and discussion at GrokLaw.