So I spent the last week in Amsterdam for training. Amsterdam is a great city, so it's unfortunate that I didn't have all that much time for exploration. Luckily I at least managed a small trip to the Rijksmuseum; while most of the museum is closed for restoration, they have …
Peterlog
Street Installations
Excellent street art by Mark Jenkins -- http://xmarkjenkinsx.com/outside.html
A Superhero Is Born
NAO NextGen
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNbj2G3GmAo?wmode=transparent]
Amazing vid, and definitely a great toy. Wonder if it can be taught useful things too tho'
Learning Go
That is, Go the programming language, not the board game.
I've tremendously enjoyed learning Erlang some time back, and I'verealized that besides the value the Erlang/OTP platform itselfprovided, learning a new computer programming language has all sortsof benefits in itself. So, I've since been more curious …To MVC or not MVC
Andrzej Krzywda opines that Ruby on Rails is not in fact modeled after the MVC pattern despite claims to the contrary. One could add thatRails is not the only web framework or -application which misuses the"MVC" tag. As Andrzej notes, the crux is that MVC requires the Model …Sample and Hold
From Neil Youngs superb and very underappreciated "Trans" album, 1982. I think I liked the album partly because it annoyed the folk lovers I grew up with ;-)
Oh, I just see a contemporary review -- the Rolling Stone praised the album highly at the time. Well, maybe not so underappreciated after …
Vintage Commercial
Animated tire commercial, ca. 1960
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hc_expHAJo?wmode=transparent]
Zugerberg
Went up Zugerberg yesterday. Was completely destroyed at the top but got rewarded with some gorgeous views!
I went counterclockwise, ie. up via Widishof and Juchenegg, down via Schindellegi, Berghof and Blasenberg. Next time I'll try it the other way round though; I think it might be less steep and …
Erlang Ghetto
I don't use Erlang much these days (can't use it at my job, not much free time for my own projects), but I follow Erlang mailing lists and blogs pretty closely. The people there are as a rule much smarter than me, so I can only benefit :-) Tony Arcieri, the …
