Archive: November 11, 2001
Ok, I have to register for classes soon, but Rutgers' web registration system is down, and their phone registration system isn't answering. What the heck?!
Ok, well the phone system answered, but it's down.
Ok, it's up again, but they won't let me register until 6:30am. Guess when I'm going to try to get up? 
Some neat stuff via LtU about graphical programming, showing, basically, that graphical programming is much more difficult to comprehend than textual programming, and another Why learn Functional programmming post from c.l.scheme. It's nice to see that I already have learned a lot, but not quite all, of the ways of thinking that the guy claims to have now after learning scheme for a few weeks.
I just watched Thelma & Louise for Ethics. I'm supposed to say how each of Kant, Mill, Manning, and Aristotle would evaluate Louise's actions in the movie. I have no clue what I'm going to write. I should have taken the other option and watched Schindler's List instead. That would have been a lot easier. I may still do that but it's really long.
Well, after trying Pegasus Mail yet again for awhile I've decided, again, to go back to Outlook (the Pegasus Mail site hasn't even been updated because of the release of version 4.0 yet). Pegasus Mail's IMAP doesn't work right for my e-mail at Rutgers, and there is no shortcut to check and send mail!! That's the most basic thing you do in an e-mail program! I'm thinking of switching to Outlook Express instead of Outlook, but what I really want to do is write my own e-mail program. It'll give me a chance to learn Windows programming, and get to flex my C++ muscles.
While I'm here, here are some old, but I hope still relevant, articles from Microsoft on MFC. Microsoft Foundation Class Library 4.0: C++ Application Framework for Microsoft Windows, and Microsoft Foundation Class Library Development Guidelines.
This is about the only meaty documentation I could find from Microsoft on MFC. Though it seems shallow at first, it seems to get deeper as you click through links. It even has a sample app I'm looking at now. We'll see if it gets me anywhere. Crap, but of course it requires that I have Visual C++ to use them.
Then again, maybe I should just use wxWindows, and I just found out that Python has a binding to MFC!
More stuff about the Buffy musical. You can listen to some of the songs on UPN's page for the episode.
Check it out. So that I could watch and listen to the highest quality versions of the song and the two videos they have, I got ASF Recorder. It'll let you save a streaming Windows Media file! Excellent!.
Whoa, REBOL is going to power the next version of Morpheus: "California, USA - October 31, 2001 - REBOL Technologies and StreamCast Networks (formerly MusicCity.com) today announced a partnership to create the world's largest peer-to-peer X Internet content network. StreamCast, makers of Morpheus and next generation peer-to-peer content distribution networks, will base Morpheus 2.0 on REBOL's X Internet operating system (IOS) technology to provide interactive programmable content to more than 30 million users by the end of the year."
This sounds like exactly the kind of application that REBOL Technologies has been aiming at. Good for them. I'm looking forward to seeing how well this works. If this project goes well it'll really give them something good to show off the language with.
I just read a review on Slashdot of Scott Adams' God's Debris. I'm going to check out the sample chapters now.
I just saw Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo for the first time. What a good movie!
Whoa, I just noticed it's 1:21 in the morning.
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