Sep 29 2008
See if you can intuit this one:
Sep 26 2008
The “Wedding reception” edition.
Sep 22 2008
Last year, I moved our small programming department from using JDeveloper and editing shared files directly on a network drive to using Netbeans 6.x and a proper version control system (Subversion).
After the initial learning curve, this has all been going…
Sep 19 2008
I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas HofstadterI was vaguely aware of Douglas Hofstadter by reputation: his reputed magnum opus, a dense 1970s work called Gödel, Escher, Bach:…
Sep 19 2008
The “R.I.P. David Foster Wallace” edition
Sep 15 2008
Why do all the writers I like kill themselves?
David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest and a lot of other things, as well as one of the most ferociously intelligent and talented writers I have ever had the pleasure of reading,…
Sep 14 2008
Hocus Pocus by Kurt VonnegutWritten in 1990, Hocus Pocus may be considered one of Vonnegut’s “later” works, his most famous stuff having been written in the 1960s and 1970s.…
Sep 12 2008
The “Spore is completely underwhelming” edition.
Sep 11 2008
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Admissions needed help. They had been moved…