Reflections on code, the things I read and what I've been up to.
Back in October last year, we spent a weekend at Sydney’s Observatory Hotel for our anniversary. A very nice weekend; their restaurant (Galileo) is highly recommended.
Read ArticleThe Princess Bride S. Morgenstern ‘The Good Parts’ Edition, Abridged by William Goldman
Read ArticleWe moved to Sydney at the beginning of 2007. This city is quite renowned for a reasonably good fireworks show on a pretty nice harbour for New Year’s Eve, and...
Read ArticleThere was a federal election in Australia, just last weekend: the 24th of November. This election went a lot better than the last few years worth of elections. John Howard...
Read ArticleThomas Watson from IBM said that he could foresee a need for perhaps five computers worldwide, and we now know that that figure was wrong, because he overestimated by four....
Read ArticleAs a lazy functional language Haskell has to provide automatic currying of all functions. But once you’ve tried to use a functional language that doesn’t automatically curry you realise this...
Read ArticleNow that I’m using some proper tools for my blog editing I’m going back through my old posts making sure the formatting and HTML are correct. In particular, I’ve turned...
Read ArticleI was never entirely happy with using the Blogger editing box in a web browser for an entire, long post. It’s in a browser, where the slightest click or accidental...
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