Friday, November 15, 2002

Thursday, November 14, 2002

Truly excellent talk on Iraq by Scott Ritter, former Chief UN Weapons Inspector

Monday, November 11, 2002

Everything you always wanted to know about why Microsoft sucks, but were afraid to ask.

Thursday, November 07, 2002


Raven Graphs
: graphs of the first stanza of Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven, made with txt2graph and GraphVis
"LZO implements the fastest compression and decompression algorithms around."

Sunday, November 03, 2002

"CONS is a replacement for MAKE. It is not compatible with make, but it has a number of powerful capabilities not found in other software construction systems, including make."
Opt "is a subroutine library which facilitates the convenient input of parameters to a C or C++ programs"
gitty-gitty "is able to generate an already compilable, very sophisticated "hello world" program, written in C or C++ and constituted by a main program, two internal modules (classes), one static and one shared library and one shellscript. All these sources exept the shellscript contain a full set of possible doxygen-comments. And this complex documented "Hello World" is already fully embedded into GNU autoconf/automake."
"Kazlib is a collection of program modules portably written in ANSI C. There is a dictionary module based on red-black trees, an extendible hashing module, and a system for emulating exception handling."

Wednesday, October 30, 2002

"I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God." --George Bush

Tuesday, October 29, 2002

Monday, October 28, 2002

want less pain...
Exhaust: a redcode simulator
"You might think these Christian activists represent the furthest shores of American politico-religious wackiness. The politicians don't think so. This conference began with a videotaped benediction straight from the Oval office. Some of the most influential republicans in Congress addressed the gathering including - not once, but twice - Tom DeLay, who is hot favourite to take over as majority leader of the House of Representatives after the midterm elections on November 5, thus becoming arguably the most powerful man on Capitol Hill." <-- sadly, this is not a joke
Differential Evolution