The second instance of interesting Web sites from our friend Peter Squire: Top Articles for the week Happiness 101 That was 2006 – a review of the year’s top stories and pictures http://www.nature.com/news/specials/2006/index.html Most Important Science Stories of 2006 A Robot in Every Home http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=9312A198-E7F2-99DF-31DA639D6C4BA567 Fun stories of the week Becky award (people or […]
Doing some research for my upcoming Programming Languages class I came across some articles by David N. Welton: “Articles by David N. Welton”. The one titled “Downwardly Scalable Programming Languages” contains a quote to share. “Good systems should be able to scale down as well as up. They should run on slower computers that don’t […]
Peter Squire, a friend, occasionally sends me and a host of others a list of articles that he finds interesting. The list always contains some sites that I’d like to read further, come back to, and recommend to others. The list comes by email and I think it ought to be blogged. So without asking […]
Tagged articlesI am really liking AJAX and PHP, by Cristian Daire, Filip Chereches-Tosa, Bogdan Brinzarea, and Mihai Bucica. I’ve only read the first chapter and browsed the book, and it seems very clear and well-written. I’ll be the instructor in a course titled Building Web Applications With AJAX this coming semester. I’ll be recommending this book […]
Our sons were here for their annual Christmas visit. What a pleasure. Oliver, according to his usual custom, gave us a Christmas CD by his band, A place To Bury Strangers. The lead track is I saw mommy kissing santa claus. I like it very much, a very interesting and original arrangement. Want to hear […]
Fredericksburg.com created a really neat feature for the holidays. The page Holiday Songs contains the results of ‘people-on-the-street’ video vignettes singing their own versions of several Christmas songs and carols. It is funny, heartwarming, and am interesting collection of people singing without reservations; being themselves. —- In Iraq: U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 2957 […]
Here are a few pictures I took yesterday of our beech tree. The rain made the bark look almost black and gave the sheen. The tree looks muscular to me, with as much strength as the Minotaur. Click on a thumbnail to see the pic at full size. Speaking of the Minotaur, The Minotaur Takes […]
Eugene Robinson’s column A ‘Surge’ in Wasted Sacrifice in today’s Washington Post is another eloquent voice stating what we all know and need to admit. Continuing Bush’s plan in Iraq is a continuation of asking people to sacrifice their lives – sacrifice their lives – for no good or well-thought-out plan. Contrast that with Tony […]
Browsing reddit this morning, I came across a link that included some visual proofs, displayed below. They are very clear explanations of some mathematical identities. I started looking around for some others. Here’s what I found: Visual Explanations in Mathematics Wikipedia Commons entries for the Pythagorean Theorem the two interesting looking books by Robert Nelson […]
Recycling your computer
A friend has been organizing his work space at home and had a few computers that he didn’t need any more, and asked for some advice on selling them, donating them, or otherwise getting rid of them. The most expedient thing to do in this area, if the computer and/or monitor is in working condition, […]