Inklings in September 2004
An Audioblogging Manifesto
Maciej Ceglowski sums up my irritation at having to download a fucking MP3 so I could discover what was happening when weblogs.com closed down (MP3)
Learning Computer Science
I pretty much agree with everything in this.
The Solitaire Encryption Algorithm
Sweet mother, is this cool!
IE6 Peek-a-boo bug
This plagued my last talideon.com design, and it’s causing me a world of pain with one I’m doing for work.
Introducing sIFR: The Healthy Alternative to Browser Text
I was planning something like this, though nowhere near as ambitious, as my first attempt at flash, but no need now!
TDB: Trivial DataBase
A rather nifty DBM-esque library refactored from Samba.
IE7
IE JavaScript hacks to stop IE5/6 from being quite so braindead
Political vs. Economic Capitalism
Slamdunk!
Bush: "our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over."
The Onion in an oddly precient mood…
How to give and receive criticism
I know a client who could really do with reading this.
Bush's Greatness
Propaganda…
The Power of the Glow
… vs. The Truth!
XStandard
A WYSIWYG editor that generates well-formed XHTML.
Tcl for Web Nerds
Where I learned Tcl.
David Shorten
Went to college with this dude.
Tickler Files
43 folders (12 months, 31 days) to organise everything. Genius.
JavaScript Decoder
See the JavaScript Packer earlier
Schwartznegger bans necrophilia
Whoa! I never thought I’d be writing that! You mean, it wasn’t already illegal? I feel safer already. There goes Cher’s sex life anyway…
JScript, DNA, and Mad Cow Disease
Eric Lippert on Quines
This Old Blog, Part I
I might integrate some of the ideas from this into my own engine.
Fionnuala
Matching names to ethnic groups regardless, it’s nice to see so many irish names in there :-)
Amazon's A9
Outgoogles Google.
Le futur c'est Jabber
Je suis desolé : c’est en français.
findstr
Windows (2000 and onwards at least) has a built-in grep! Surely a hidden gem.
If America were Iraq, What would it be Like?
Putting yourself in the other guy’s shoes. Sobering.
I want my code blocks
Pining for Aspects and/or Closures in Python
Bush's flip-flops documented
I’ve never got why Kerry gets such a hard wrap on this. He and Bush are human, and will flip-flop. What Lord Keynes said, and all that.
Blogging your bliss, or blog like there's nobody there.
Good advice, most definitely.
The Reform Movement
The descendents of the sane, Redmondite side of Irish Unionism.
Mark Shuttleworth
Possibly the coolest guy in South Africa: check out the software bounties page.
Eurabia
Oh my! It seems the loons have finally taken over in the US
PHP/SWF Charts
One word: wow.
We Lied To You
The computer industry fesses up to the music and film industy that DRM just doesn’t work and that it was all just a ruse to stomp them. (Humour)
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
A Flash version of the Infocom classic up on the BBC website. Brings back memories…
MS fires armour-piercing suit at 'bullet-proof' spam host
And strange as it may sound to some people coming from me, but Go Microsoft!
Software patents directive delayed, again
With any luck, this’ll help the anti-patents groups.
HTMLArea - The Online Editor
A free online WYSIWYG HTML editor. It doesn’t support standards, but it might be retrofittable to do so.
TiddlyWiki
It’s a wiki engine, and it’s all JavaScript: what more can I say?
The travesty of "Introducing Python"
I downloaded this last night to take a look. It was embarrassing. I don’t know what was worse: the acting, the beards, or Guido’s haircut. As a pythonista, I’m ashamed.
GMail Notifier for Firefox
I’ve been using this for a while and thought I’d throw up a link. It’s excellent.
Download Zork I, II, and III
Go on! It’s fun! And there’s nothing wrong with a bit of nostalgia.
Boffo Games, Inc.
Steve Meretzky’s adventure game company.
Milky Way has a caramel centre ;-)
And if you don’t get that, then you don’t eat Irish/UK sweets.
Good Bad Attitude
An excerpt from Paul Graham’s “Hackers and Painters” on why hackers dislike the IP laws, and unruliness is good.
One Word
Given a word, a random word, what can you write in sixty seconds? Try it.
Microsoft Says Buy New Windows or Be Unsafe
So, MS still says IE7 is only going to be available to XP users. Hey kids! Can you say M-O-N-O-P-O-L-Y? Yet another good reason to change to just about any other modern browser, if not another OS.
Jewel Heist in the Louvre!
That’s in french, but the gist is that the thieves stole two diamonds, worth EUR6mil and EUR5.5mil each, between 3pm and 3:15.
Why your code sucks
An examination of how code can suck, and why.
Dubya Channels Calvin, or Vice Versa
A great Calvin and Hobbes ‘toon on Crooked Timber
Well-formed Web Namespace Elements
The comments API and comments RSS stuff might come in useful.
Breadth is sometimes better than depth
Eric Lippert explores the benefits of doing breath-first searches rather than depth-first, and points out their relationship with queues and stack.
"Internet is dying!", screams guru.
BT Exact boffin (sniff sniff, is that bias I smell?) Graham Whitehead complains the Inturweb is dying ‘cause it’s dumb and flexible rather than smart and rigid (phone system, anybody?) so people and do stuff with it and corporations can’t control it. Aw!
Shitty Bum
Interesting music video. Song’s pretty funky too.
Wicked Weasel Girls
Phwoar!
Firefox breaking page
Which is, um, a bit broken itself.
ChangeThis.com
Manifestos a-go-go. Blurb: ChangeThis is creating a new kind of media. A form of media that uses existing tools (like PDFs, blogs and the web) to challenge the way ideas are created and spread.
Technorati Profile
Just ignore that link, ok? It’s maintainence work.
Parallels between the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the US invasion of Iraq
Army was against it, seen as liberation project, world protested it, caused economic stress at home, etc., etc.
NASA World Wind
Check out and zoom in on any part of the world in real time. Pretty cool!
CFLib.org
Common Function Library Project: An attempt to build a repository of useful ColdFusion UDFs.
Celtiberian Sample Text
The language geek in me just couldn’t help it!
Session Tracking by ETag/If-None-Match fields
Spooky is right!
Subway is a Source Code Control Provider for Subversion
When this is mature, it should remove certain people’s excuses for not using version control.
Pushok SVN SCC proxy
Like Subway, but it’s still more mature and commercial.
RapidSVN
A cross-platform SVN GUI client.
AnkhSVN
A VS.NET addin for SVN.
Subclipse
An Eclipse plugin that adds Subversion integration to the Eclipse IDE.
SourceCross.org SCC stuff
Subversion SCC provider: not available for download yet, but might end up being good.
SVNScc
SVNScc is an SCC Provider that works with programs the use the MS Source Code Control API.
Zeus SCC-SVS
Like the PushOk SVN SCC proxy, but free for download
Fronier 10
Its first OpenSource release, I think.
Google goes and does something evil: "Assumes the position" for the Chinese government
I’m heartbroken, really. This is a bad, bad day.
Legalizing Torture
But then, that’s nowhere near as bad as the Republicans in the US congress attempting to legalise torture in a roundabout way through Extraordinary Rendition.
Commodore 32! The World's First Interactive Fiction Standalone Z-Machine
Oooh! I’d enter this if my Inform wasn’t so rusty. I’d even order a copy of the Inform Designer’s Manual if I could get everything done for it in time.
"What the Bubble Got Right" by Paul Graham
Another excellent essay. What more can I say?
Genocide and Juice
You know, it’s this same kind of hate that lead to the Holocaust.
Education and Terror
Kieran at Crooked Timber has more important things to say on the Horsefeathers letter. Rightwingers should read what he writes: the perspective of a thinking Irishman would be enlightening. We has something called the Troubles here, you know.
Why languages should have 'unless' and 'if'
I feel no shame in sounding sad: I agree wholly with Charles. It’s just nice to write nice, sunny conditionals. The code just reads better with them. After all, Perl has to have at least one redeeming feature…
Button Maker
I’ve been looking for this for ages.
Mayhem's Magic Dust
One of my favourite C-64 games ever (and a finer platformer you won’t find) makes its merry way onto a mobile phone near you!
TuckerMax.com
If you’re of even slightly conservative or squeamish, DO NOT FOLLOW THAT LINK! But if you’re willing to subject yourself to what I can only describe as Jackass, but about sex, and actually funny, then follow!
Shell scripts in 20 pages
I think I found and passed this on to Brietta a while back. Can’t remember. But I’m logging it anyway.
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