Topics on my particular interests.
I was recently discussing the state of computers with a friend, and it occurred to me that there’s no obvious business case for Apple to make their Safari browser available for Windows. It makes sense for them to have their own browser for the Mac, so that they’re not at the mercy of any other …
Well, I’ve had this thing for four days now, and I’ve finally gotten it set up the way I wanted it. The first thing I wanted to do was replace the Xandros Linux on it with Ubuntu, both because I wanted the same set of programs available to me as on my larger systems, and …
Interesting… Joel Spolsky (of Joel on Software fame) and Jeff Atwood (of the Coding Horror programming blog) are getting together to create a free programming Q&A site. Having done my fair share of Internet research on programming topics, I think it’s an excellent idea. Here’s Joel’s announcement, and here’s Jeff’s.
Unbelievable. After 150 years of steadily-accumulated evidence in favor of evolution, we’re still getting garbage like this Expelled movie? Expelled expresses the opinion that the universal support of evolution in the scientific community is the product of some sort of bias or ideological inflexibility. It is, on the contrary, the result of decades of hard …
I’d like to be the first to congratulate my friend Ploni Almoni (on the Recyclosphere blog) on his new Mac Mini. Have fun with it, Ploni!
I had been trying to get a look at one of these for months, but no place around here seemed to carry them. I wasn’t too concerned, because I’d planned to wait for a later version of it before I took the plunge. Ah well, “the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry…” …
I stumbled across this interesting quiz a few days ago: Even if YOU don’t know what faith you are, Belief-O-Maticâ„¢ knows. Answer 20 questions about your concept of God, the afterlife, human nature, and more, and Belief-O-Maticâ„¢ will tell you what religion (if any) you practice…or ought to consider practicing. Of the religions it listed …
I don’t know what it is about people that makes us enjoy watching a disaster, but here’s a doozy. Note that that turbine measures sixty meters in height. Must have been quite a sight in person. Okay, so I’m a few weeks late on this. Give me a break, I’m catching up. 🙂
Surprise, surprise. 🙂
The title of this post refers to an oft-repeated C++ dictum — one that I’ve resisted for most of my C++ career. I tried doing things that way, several times, but in the end I always went back to hand-written loops. That changed recently; read on to see why, and more importantly, how.