Some books make me want to leap up out of my chair and go change the world, or die trying.
Charles Stross' Halting State is not one of them.
However, it is a darn good read, and -- for those of you who are into the Internet, Python, MMORPGs, and/or …
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Ran across this diary entry from wainstead, and just wanted to mention that this sort of thing (replaying HTTP traffic) is something that I do with scotch quite successfully. It hasn't proven to be particularly useful in my own projects yet, but it has been nice when debugging JavaScript-y web …
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I'm midway through Scott Rosenberg's Dreaming in Code, and I can unabashedly recommend it to anyone who likes a good yarn. Yes, it's about software development, and you'll need a fair bit of technical exposure -- not experience, just exposure -- to navigate the references. But anyone who is reading this, including …
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While on travels (visiting the Computational Biology Initiative in San Antonio, Texas) I read two fiction books that were a cut above my normal sci-fi and fantasy reading material.
The Geographer's Library, by Jon Fasman was an entertaining read about alchemists. It took the same sort of pseudo-intellectual approach to …
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I sent this e-mail to a local friend who lost his mind a few years back and started voting Republican. His response suggests that there's a platform some Dems could maybe consider running on...
If the Dems want to make me their electoral love slave: once they get power, toss …read more
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