I guess I haven't really posted about it here, at least not recently, so I thought I'd let people know that I've been blogging a bit recently at The Gameshelf , prog 's group blog centered around his public-access TV show (although the blog is about video games and board games in general, not just the show). Besides posting about some casual games I've been playing, I've also posted a bit...

(from a comment thread in prog 's journal that got me thinking.) The current media outlets have lost one of their most valuable assets: credibility. Without this, reporting and investigation are unimportant: no one believes you did the hard work to find out the truth when you so often present made-up news you got off YouTube, or inexpert pretty-faces speaking nonsense. If you don't swear to...

I finished uploading all my photos and videos from my trip to NY , as well as a few other things that had been backlogged (though I still haven't caught up with all of September let alone October). I'm pretty happy with Flickr; I held out for a long time for no good reason, but it really does have a lot of nice features, and it helps that everyone else is there too. Their video support is still...

9:00: Man, Prop 2 in MA (decriminalize possession of small amounts of pot) is actually winning, by a much higher margin than I expected. I figured most people would just go, "Just Say Noooo! Drugs baaaad!" I saw nobody outside campaigning in either direction for this one -- I guess smoking up outside polling places doesn't play as well as hanging out with cute puppies. (Out-of-staters, Prop 3 bans...

From prog 's blog. I was convinced, this must be a joke . This is an Onion article right? Oh wait, no it fucking isn't . Did these people, actually you know READ the OT?

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A couple of weeks ago NPR announced its new "Planet Money" podcast. A day or two later it was mentioned in LJ--I think by prog . A couple of days ago I decided to add some variety to my podcast subscriptions, and added Planet Money. The Planet Money "theme" music for the first few podcasts (but not for the most recent few) was an excerpt from Gorillaz's "Every Planet We Reach is Dead" which...

prog was recently complaining about hearing that old saw "Perl's just not popular any more". This got me curious about what CPAN growth looked like these days. It's just one measure of the languages success, but it seems like a pretty good one. I remember having seen this while ago ( also this )... quite a while ago as it turns out. So I went and did something similar, though without machine...

The weather podcast got one or two listeners, which, I think it is a good thing. I got some advice, and no, actually people thought my voice sounded pretty good. I got some feedback ... about the podcast if and when I made a new one and if you -- any of you -- have any further advice, please, let me know. Like: I announce the weather conditions upcoming for various cities around the US based on who...

В ходе работы над диаломным проектом (официально выпускной работой бакалавра), где надо было создать автоматизированную библиотечную систему, просмотривал какие уже есть аналогичные популярные системы. Конечно, не смог просто так пройти мимо системы "ИРБИС", картинки на сайте продукта понравились, поэтому скачал демо-версию. Иконки у программы довольно красивые, их всего два типа - одни с барсом,...