What is so new about blogging? Apart from the fact that “blogging” is already several years old, nothing. Having a personal website on which you write is, I would say, almost as old as the web itsself. It just wasn't called blogging but news, diary, whatever.
I did play around with squeak, only as much as to get a superficial impression of it. It seems to be a very nice IDE, they syntax though is a bit unusual to me. I wish it were lisp.
According to google it's 3 pages or ~30 hits. Whenever you search for websites related to eg. lemonodor.com or ww.telent.net/diary/ you get 30 results, which span 3 pages.
The jam may have been special, but I don't know why, yet.
Things are looking good, for a) there is something to wait for and it ain't christmas and b) eventhough I have to wait, it won't make me crazy cause i know i won't miss anything.
Life is sooo good, and I'm soo happy. I could just say it over and over again.
I edited the template for this blog, removed some “bad” style. First of all the table had to go, I don't why it was used in first place. It's main purpose was to center & limit the layout to 80%, well width: 80%; margin-left: 10%; does the same. It also seperated the headline, links, content, links into different cells. Thats all gone now and done with divs and CSS, and why divs were placed in the cells is a mystery to me, unless some WYSIWYG editor was involved in the creation of that template.
What I'm still planning to do is to set up some sidebar with some links.
In the seminar I'm visiting, we had a short introduction into estonian literature. The Lector handed round some books, among them two containing estonian fairy tales (in german, I can't read nor speak estonian).
Fairy tales are interesting, usually they're set in a rural scene, in a time when horse-carriages were the standard method of transportation, a time that is unlike ours. But the deeper meaning of those stories still hold true. The stories also contain forgotten things, thing that were common in those days, but have been replaced or abandoned by us. And they are mostly simple and easy, which makes them a nice read.
For some reason there are many old estonian authors which have german names like Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald author of the estonian national epic “Kalevipoeg”
for myself
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I saw emacs20 at the university today (because emacs seems to be a link to 20 instead of 21), and my first impression was “wow, a bitmap like black & white GUI, how do I replicate that in (X)Emacs 21?”. the emacs20 GUI reminds me of lisp pr0n, aka simple, sharp, existing for ages, but like the wheel it's reinvented again and again, but with more colours and of course “better”.
Today I bought three bags of “Braune Kuchen” and three books:
The Informatik Library of my university sold them for € 0,50 each. I wish they had sold Pauls books aswell. There are some problems though. The first & the third one were typesetted with a Typewriter, the LISP code in the second book is badly formatted (spaces missing, few newlines), and all of them don't talk about common lisp, so you'll me things like DE instead of DEFUN.
Whats interesting is that “LISP - Anwendungsgebiete, Grundbegriffe, Geschichte” was written by a Prof. in the GDR.
taking a negative look at something will give you negative results, looking at these results results in negative results. circle, bad circle.
A lot of my fear comes from this. I try to imagine a situation, see and follow the bad things, which I don't want. Then I fear this fictitious situation and try to avoid it, which is not only bad because I avoid things which I have to do but this is a start of a vicious circle.
Not thinking too much about consequences, choosing the positive pov and getting positive feedback helps.
no panther review, there are enough
it's so beautiful i could cry, it's different, for better. i don't feel pushed aside, ignored
I will see her again on thursday, two days, which will take a long time to pass.
You know, it's that thing when you are just happy, it comes close to a perfect time, what is better than happiness/love? -
Indicator that you are in love: When you think “Oh, no! It's going to be five days till I will see her again“
That's how I feel at the moment. It's horrible, like waiting for christmas eve. Last night I was so excited I had to read a book to get my mind off her and fall asleep.
Although it's not listed in his schedule, I'm going to listen to Adrian Plass tonight.
I did it, and I regret it, poor story, no very poor story. Everything that has a beginning has an end, Matrix doesn't, or at least it's so disappointing, that it would do better without part three. The only thing which is interesting plotwise is the talk between that architect and the oracle, the rest is crap.
No not really, it's just that the the current code assignment, which really sucks, is in java.
Too angry, must take a break and go to my fathers birthday.
Side-effects aren't cool, calling a method just to get a side-effect, is something i loath to do. We had to code a simple queue whose content is limited by the types the comparator accepts. The comparator will throw a exception if incompatible objects are passed. So the queue.enqueu(Object o) method will “throw” will throw it aswell, which is okay if the queue already contains an element. If the queue is empty no comparison/sorting has to be done, but that means you could have a object, which won't be accepted by the comparator, in your queue. Calling comparator.compare(o,o) solves the problem, but I don't want to compare anything I call it just to cause a exception if o isn't accepted by comparator.compare(). Thats why “java” sucks.
by Paul Graham, which is what I am reading atm. Sadly it is out of print so your options of obtaining it are basically limited to buying a used one via ebay or flea-markets, borrow it from a library or simply stick with online version, for free.
I think it's a great book, because it delivers what the cover promises “Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp”. Though i find his usage of destructive functions a bit strange, he says one should treat them as if there were a tax on their use, but he uses them in almost every function he defines.
I found a well-preserved copy of CLtL2 for € 12.50 on ebay, but it the last minutes it went up to € 25, too high for me now :(
