I fixed the word “hieroglyphs” on the blog description. I’m a writer! I can’t spell! Bah!
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From the monthly archives:
May 2004
I have a lot of respect for people who can present technical information visually in an interesting way. I can do the writing, but visual design is not my strong point — not just graphic design, site design, but information design (its a different thing). So when I come across something like Mark Lentczner’s Periodic Table of Perl Operators (PDF) I just sit and gaze in awe. Wow. Its just awesome. (of course you have to understand something about Perl to know WHY its awesome, but trust me, it is).
I look at a set of Perl operators and I think in terms of a table; to come up with this kind of organization and layout requires some kind of sense of spacial multidimensional thought that I just don’t have. Totally fascinating. Plus, the column labels are really funny. (via rc3.org Daily
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How traceroute really works. Its all pirates and parrots. Who knew?
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A couple of German guys have created a Mac SE, on the Web, entirely in Flash. Its scarily accurate (albeit in german), although way faster than my old Mac used to be. And until it has Lode Runner it won’t be a true simulation of MY old mac experience.
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I’m not intending to do a lot of political stuff on this blog, because there are a zillion political blogs out there and I’m just not good at political commentary (“uhhhhh…war BAD”). Plus: if I talk about political stuff I’ll get even more hate mail than I already do. I am a delicate flower. Hate mail upsets me. So I think I’ll talk about nice things like tapeworms and cutting off my fingers instead.
But I have to make one exception, because its just a really great rant and I really appreciate a great rant: Neil Pollack’s piece in the Stranger this week titled Just Shut Up, in which he tells off a bunch of mostly right-wing pundits.
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