Well, that's it for me for this year. I'm leaving to go to my friend Angel's house for his big family New Year's party. See you next year

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Via Slashdot, Google Recaps 2001. See Google's 2001 Timeline.

Also, for the technologically perverse, check out Textmode Quake 2. Check it out, as well as ttyquake, the original text-mode Quake.

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Awesome, I just found out they have a PC demo for Soul Reaver 2. I'm downloading it now. Or at least attempting to... their site is slow. Thanks to Roy for reminding me about the game.

Ok, I finished playing the demo The demo was pretty short. Graphics are pretty awesome. Control was pretty hard with my mouse and keyboard... well just the fighting was. I spent a lot of time figuring out what I would most like my keyboard configuration to be. Anyway, I suppose control would be easier with an appropriate controller. It's only 29.99 at Eidos's online store - I may get it.

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I just noticed from ferite.org that there's a ferite syntax highlighting file for Kate. I've been spoiled by EditPlus on Windows, and lack of a text editor I wanted to use on Linux is possibly the main reason I never switched over to Linux full time. Kate just might be what I need.

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15:43 (utc-5)

 

I've just been fixing up my PHP calendar code a little bit. After looking at Steven Rebello's code, I noticed that date() can return the number of days in the month... should have figured that in the first place. Also, I realized yesterday when skiing that my code didn't account for "empty days" at the end of the month after the last day. So while the resulting HTML looked right, I actually didn't complete the table correctly - so I'm fixing that too.

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15:01 (utc-5)

 

Have you ever been half awake and half asleep, trying to continue a dreem you were just having when you were fully asleep, but you weren't sure whether you were directing the dream (in other words, just imagining, or maybe 'daydreaming'), or whether you were actually back dreaming again?

Anyway, I think I've just had the most emotional dream I've ever had in my life.

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A neat article from Paul Graham, who I've mentioned before: What Made Lisp Different.

I'm writing him an e-mail asking him what he thinks about Lisp vs. other, newer functional languages like Haskell, and if he's heard of REBOL and what he thinks of it.

I just found a discussion on LtU about Arc (the new dialect of Lisp that Graham is writing) where someone brings up REBOL. Oh, and look. REBOL was discussed at the lightweight languages group where Graham made a presentation on Arc, so he's obviously heard of it. Here's another report on the conference from DDJ (and another blurb from Byte).

Anyway, my main questions are: Why Lisp over other functional programming languages? Is it primarily that its syntax allows you to write macros? Second, why isn't REBOL the language he wants to write?

Hey, thanks!

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Hey, cool. I had double the amount of people checking /weblog/?rss than /blog.xml.php today after my plea from yesterday. I guess people actually do read my weblog? Thanks to whoever changed! Now all I need to know is how to get my entry in http://www.ourfavoritesongs.com/sourcesHotlist.xml changed. If anyone knows, please let me know.

Oh, and here's where Radio's update scheme is explained. It updates sometime between midnight and 1am.

Um, actually, it looks like Radio is redirecting to my /weblog/?rss file twice for each time it hits blog.xml.php? That's weird. So it's not that people are actually reading my weblog and made the switch... oh well.

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