Archive: February 26, 2003
Check out Rafael's Go Page for extensive resources for the game of Go. He has basic rules, strategy, etc. etc. there.
It turns out the go program I'm using for my Palm is really crappy, since I'm a total beginner and it can't beat me. Unfortunately, Go for Palm OS, the Go I'd rather use, only works on OS 3.5, so I'm stuck with Pilot Go. Anyway, since I now have a basic handle on the game and can at least beat a bad computer program, I decided to learn more about the game, so I printed out a whole bunch of Rafael's page. Check it out. Besides some grammar errors, it's very good!
Wait a minute, I just realized I can use Palm Go version 1.0 instead of the newer 1.2, since that seems like it doesn't require OS 3.5. Rock on.
Well, that didn't work. Version 1.0 crashes on execution with a "fatal error" or "fatal exception". So that sucks.
I just got a chain e-mail from a misguided friend with a link to the silly Win Without War group. It was disappointing to find out that this friend is against the war, so I was happy and a little comforted to see a parody of the group on ScrappleFace: 'Win Without War' Releases New Talking Points.
3. We can't control war. Experts warn that an attack on Iraq could seriously undermine and destabilize regimes in the region, upsetting monarchs and dictators who also don't like us.
4. What happens after war? Are we prepared to occupy Iraq for years to come? Think of how long it will take just to de-toxify the WMD landfills, and to give medical treatment to the Iraqi people who have been exposed to chemical and biological agents. Then there's the trials for crimes against humanity. We don't have time for all that.
7. Young Americans will die in battle...War should be the very last resort. First we should pass at least 18 resolutions in the U.N. Security Council, spend almost a year trying to build an international coalition to pressure Saddam to disarm, and continue to take no action even if he doesn't comply with our U.N. resolutions.
Here's a good post about this at LGF
Or 18th or 19th, but who's counting?[1]. Steven Den Beste: Glass half full: "So maybe things aren't all that bad after all."
Footnotes:
[1]: via InstaPundit
Via here and here, read this and this.
And what the hell is wrong with Chomsky? What warped his mind so? Also read that last link for an awesome part of a speech which rightly recognizes why America kicks ass.
And this is good too.
Ok, 1am... time to go to bed 
Oops, also this, but I'm not even sure where I came across that link.
Man could I have used this about a year and a half ago! Via Bill, TagSoup.
For the last year I have been working on a new parser written in Java that, instead of parsing well-formed or valid XML, parses HTML as it is found in the wild: nasty and brutish, though quite often far from short. TagSoup is designed for people who have to process this stuff using some semblance of a rational application design. By providing a SAX interface, it allows standard XML tools to be applied to even the worst HTML.
TagSoup is a parser, not a whole application; it isn't intended to permanently clean up bad HTML, as HTML Tidy does, only to parse it on the fly.
The semantics of TagSoup are as far as practical those of actual HTML browsers. In particular, never, never will it throw any sort of syntax error: the TagSoup motto is "Just Keep On Truckin'". But there's much, much more. For example, if the first tag is LI, it will supply the application with enclosing HTML, BODY, and UL tags. Why UL? Because that's what browsers assume in this situation.
I have to keep this great-sounding tool in the back of my mind.
I laughed at this: The Saddam and George show:
Blair: The second question is for Mr Bush. Mr Bush, if America and Iraq were to go to war tomorrow, who would win?
Bush: That's easy. America, right?
Saddam: Even I knew that one.
Bush: That's because the great United American States of America are on the side of rightliness and Americanity, against an evil Axis of Evil made up of Iraq, North Korea and... how many are in an axis? Three?
Blair: I think you're allowed as many as you like.
Bush: OK, Iraq, North Korea and France.
Via Bill Humphries
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We watched Smallville on TiVo last night, and while watching we saw commercials for the WB11 news which followed Smallville. Christopher Reeve was going to be on, but because we were watching Smallville during the time that the news was on we didn't get to see it. So, I went to the web site and they have tons of videos which probably contain more material than what they showed on the news... so - bonus!
This seems to be the main Smallville page on the web site, so you may want to check that out too.
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