The Myth of the Machine

I write a lot of posts for this weblog that never see the light of day. Ecto dutifully saves them for me, and they never hit the WWW. A rambling (and therefore unpublished) post is sitting on the queue re: a paper I just read; I’ll settle for a short post that just points to the . . . → Read More: The Myth of the Machine

Busy

A few projects have been underway at the same time; I’m working on a project for building tutorials in BlueJ, and have continued to occasionally ride co-pilot on this project. Given an upcoming holiday (before the term starts), I’m working somewhere around 130% of normal. Not that normal is that slow…

I’m not dead… yet. . . . → Read More: Busy

Off to London

Christian and I are presenting this evening at the Scheme UK users group meeting. Although our presentation isn’t exactly Scheme, there are some Schemely bits. This presentation is based on the paper we wrote for CPA 2004; this trip can be considered both a warm-up for CPA, and a chance to test out some ideas for . . . → Read More: Off to London

AppleScript makes me angry

Somehow, the Script Editor application (that ships with OS X) allowed me to save my only copy of an AppleScript I’ve been working on all weekend as a “Run-Only” script.

Now, I have a script that needed a little more tweaking in a “run-only” format, and I have no way (as far as I know) to recover . . . → Read More: AppleScript makes me angry

My dream office

There’s an attribution that’s forthcoming on this, and a good story. All in good time.

How sweet would that be? A . . . → Read More: My dream office