Archive: December 02, 2001
Cool, weblog icons are back, though I never participated in the first iteration, and I don't know what to do!
"These are the manuscript chapters for my Linkers and Loaders, published by Morgan-Kaufman." - by John Levine.
From the introduction: "Linkers and loaders have been part of the software toolkit almost as long as there have been computers, since they are the critical tools that permit programs to be built from modules rather than as one big monolith."
I just found this in my blog, and I must correct myself. CQHost is bad, very very bad. I requested simple information from them many times and they never got back to me. If this is how they treat prospective customers, I wonder how they treat their current customers.
Cool, Mike Krus from NewsIsFree puts back my syndicated weblog, and changed my RSS feed to /weblog/?rss for me on NewsIsFree as well as on Syndic8. Thanks!
Turns out I wasn't being shunned  For some reason their system couldn't access my feed for a few days and deleted it from their list. Nothing personal.
Resin is the engine behind the new Ace's Hardware, via PHP Everywhere: "Resin is a fast servlet and JSP engine supporting load balancing for increased reliability. Resin encourages separation of content from style with its XSL support... Resin includes a full-featured HTTP/1.1 web server dedicated to serving fast Java dynamic content."
Duncan's Jotter links to a PDF of the work of some conference of computer scientists in the UK. I just like this quote Duncan has from it: "computer science is a new kind of discipline. It differs in both character and culture from the pure and applied sciences, engineering, and mathematics. Traditional methods of supporting and evaluating research are not always appropriate for this new field."
Via LtU: Standard C. Truly an excellent C reference, the only one I've found online like it. "This document is intended as a comprehensive reference for the Standard C programming language, including its support library... It describes all aspects of Standard C that are the same on all implementations that conform to the standard for C... In many ways, this material is best described by what it is not. It is not a history of the development of the language, nor is it a rationale for the current state of the language. Equally, this document is not a tutorial on Standard C, nor is it a lesson on how to write computer programs. It does not describe how to use any particular implementation of Standard C." Check out its comprehensive index.
In case you haven't heard yet, bad stuff in Israel today.
NY Times: Blasts Kill at Least Ten and Wound Over 130 in Jerusalem. More suicide bombers. These ones were, unfortunately, a lot smarter than the guy who ran into a pizzeria and killed no one but himself.
Update, here's CNN's story on the events.
BlogSnob seems like a really neat idea. Reciprocal weblog advertising: "How this works, is quite simple. You have a website. You insert a simple piece of code into your page. Everytime someone views your site, a small text ad shows up on your page. For every ad shown on your site, Someone else's site displays your ad. For every one ad shown on your site, you ad is shown elsewhere. 1:1 ratio."
It's great how people just go and do stuff like this. My only comment is that he should have chosen different CSS tags than .adheading and .adtext. Something more specific like .blogsnob_adheading, etc. might have been better. I'm going to suggest to him that he buy blogsnob.com or blogsnob.org before it's too late.
By the way, it's currently tied for number 35 on Daypop's top 40, and moving up
One of those intriguing and very personal weblogs - invisiblegirl.
Via NewsGeek, The Nando Times: Movie studios race to cram 'extras' onto DVDs. "With bonus features having become one of the most significant selling points for movies on DVD, the studios suddenly seem to be engaged in a race to release the biggest, most audacious DVD of them all."
Great article from the Washington Post: Plotting Along Best-Selling Authors Are Richer Than Ever. So Why Is Prose From These Pros So Poor?.
""Years ago," says Holt, "I noticed that the style of commercial fiction had shifted over to a television mentality." Novels began to be written with "short paragraphs, a lot of switching of locations and lots of dialogue." Recently, she says, "I was in an airport bookstore and I looked at the books and it really was to me a lot of propaganda." Many of the novels looked the same, she says, as though they had been written by advertising copywriters. "I don't know," says an exasperated Holt. "It's just, oh, God. One after another after another.""
"The No-Style School of fiction makes no apologies. It was founded to procure mass quantities of readers and to entice us to turn pages faster faster faster. The result is a group of outrageously successful authors who are almost indistinguishable, one from another."
Via the Daily Python-URL, Orbtech.com: Why Python?: "Because Python is simply the best combination of technical excellence and eminent practicality of any programming language available today. Python is simple, elegant, powerful and reliable, and since it's an open-source language, it's backed by thousands of professionals who each have a vested interest in its being the best tool it can be."
I just ordered $307.01 worth of books and video game from Amazon and Bookpool. Bookpool is an awesome technical books site, by the way. They have the cheapest prices anywhere, and their service has always been awesome (I had to put in a quick plug).
The Bookpool order was:
The Anti-Patterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis
1 copy, $27.50
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
1 copy, $70.95
Little Schemer
1 copy, $17.50
User Interface Design For Programmers
1 copy, $19.95
Subtotal: $135.90
Shipping: $ 5.77
Total: $141.67
and the Amazon order was:
1 "Introduction to the Theory of Computation"
Michael Sipser; Hardcover; @ $92.95 each
1 "The Language of Mathematics : Making the Invisible Visible"
Keith J. Devlin; Paperback; @ $11.96 each
1 "Mathematics : The Science of Patterns : The Search for Order in Life, Mind and the Universe (Scientific American Paperback Library)"
Keith J. Devlin; Paperback; @ $13.96 each
1 "Dragon Warrior III: Prima's Official Strategy Guide"
Elizabeth M. Hollinger; Paperback; @ $11.99 each
1 "Dragon Warrior III"
Game Cartridge; @ $29.99 each
Items: $ 160.85
Shipping & Handling: $ 8.45
Holiday Shipping Savings: - $ 3.96
Purchase Total: $ 165.34
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