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After reading Dave Winer's comment noting that he's now the number
one Dave on Google, I couldn't resist looking my my stats.
Since I started this weblog (and since Jon Udell and Ed Vielmetti linked to me) I'm the
number one "Paul Holbrook" on Google. I have no idea where I am
Google's list of "Paul"s; I gave up looking after .. let's see .. 28
screens. I'm number 20 on the list of "Holbrook"s, which isn't too
bad. (Holbrook, Arizona takes first place. Yes, we do have a picture
of our family in front of the sign at the city limits of Holbrook.)
But the best page about Holbrook is from the Places Named site: here's a list
of all the
places named Holbrook in the US. That page also informs me that
Holbrook is the 1,396th most popular last name.
5:03:29 PM 
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I kinda like Phil Wolff's little slide show Klogging 101: What, Why, and How.. It ain't pretty, but it's something to talk around when you're trying to get the point across.
I've been thinking about doing a talk along these lines, but I think I'll lay low for a while longer: I don't know enough people at Georgia Tech yet to know what the right forum would be. So for now I'm building up my own little body of knowledge that no one else is reading, but I think it will be useful at some point.
4:17:42 PM
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I've always had a hate/love relationship with math. The general
idea fascinates me. In his wonderful book The Language
of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible, Keith Devlin
defines mathematics as the science of patterns, a wonderfully
evocative idea to a computer person. But the actual practice of math
starts to make me a bit numb.
Slashdot has a couple of threads about
math in the last couple of days.
The first one is fun: Andrew Lipson has created Lego
structures out of mathematical concepts. Check out the little men
walking around the Mobius strip. [Slashdot thread].
Slashdot also popped up with another math-related thread: Options
for Adults with Renewed Interest in Math?. Lots of interesting
discussion about what to do if you're interested discusson. Better
than usual level of Slashdot discussion (assuming you read at
threshold 2, which I always do.)
3:58:17 PM
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If you've every programmed, you must check out How To Write Unmaintainable
Code by Roedy Green. A quote:
In the interests of creating employment opportunities in
the Java programming field, I am passing on these tips from the
masters on how to write code that is so difficult to maintain, that
the people who come after you will take years to make even the
simplest changes. Further, if you follow all these rules religiously,
you will even guarantee yourself a lifetime of employment, since no
one but you has a hope in hell of maintaining the code. Then again, if
you followed all these rules religiously, even you wouldn't be able to
maintain the code!
(Thanks to Jonathan Young.)
3:27:44 PM
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Linux Magazine has
a couple of interesting articles available:
- Nine Power Tools Are Enough
- The author claims all you need are nine tools: zsh, emacs, GIMP,
Glade, CVS, GCC, DDD, Apache Toolbox, and Perl.
- Write Ruby, Be Happy!
- by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt, authors of of Programming
Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide, the definitive
guide to the Ruby scripting language. Amazing, the entire text
of Programming Ruby is available on
the web.
- Python: You SHOULD Be Using It
- What can I say? Of course you should be using Python.
It's one of my favorite languages. Not the best article I've seen, though.
9:51:34 AM
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