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Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun
Somewhere, someone who is not Melinda Gates finds this photo arousing.
“Mommeeeee! Make the bad nerd stop!”
Because Eldon Brown knows that I am the World’s Most Humble Egomaniac™, he knows that the following would be of interest to me:
My blog, as I write this, is now the #1 Google result for “Joey”. I even beat out the television show Joey!
I
thought I’d enjoy my moment in the sun, as Google rankings are
ever-changing, impermanent, fluid things.
MSN Search agrees with Google’s findings:
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My Semi-Regular Plug for "The Farm"
The Farm: The Tucows Developers’ Hangout
is the blog that I’m paid to write (or, more accurately, it’s part of
what I do at my job). It’s for programmers, and while it’s an official
Tucows site, I do try to imbue it with the “voice” and “personality”
for which The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century is known. Last month, The Farm got a record number of pageviews — over 300,000 — and I hope to get us up to the half-million mark sometime next year.
There’s lots of good stuff in today’s entries,
including a number of announcments of new language versions, grants for
teams who want to write Ruby libraries and a monthly .NET programming
contest.
Back in the ’80s, when I was a high school student at De La Salle College “Oaklands”,
I got a great computer science education thanks to my teachers Messrs.
Clarkson and Etele, who taught Waterloo Structured Basic, Pascal, and
6502 Assembler on a well equipped lab of Commodore PETs, Apple ][s and ICONs.
(Yes, they taught evolution at “Del”, and said that the creation account in Genesis was poetic, not literal. Nobody’s parents screamed, as far as I recall.)
In the present day, a Catholic School, St. Ignatius, is doing one
better: they’re teaching object-oriented programming by writing interactive fiction. I have more about it on The Farm.
For no real reason (I was Googling for “scientist” images), here’s a photo of Dr. Robin Dawes, one of my favourite professors at Crazy Go Nuts University:
[This has been cross-posted to The Farm]
There’s just too much interesting stuff to do, and as a result I’ve
been over-caffeinating and under-sleeping. The end result is that
although I’m spending more time coding or learning some new
programming
tools and techniques (and with closures, Laszlo, Cocoa, all kinds of
ideas for Blogware and so on, there’s no shortage) as well as doing
some non-geeky reading, I’m actually getting less coding and learning
done.
I already knew that getting a good night’s sleep was essential to
being
productive, but it really hit me while reading the foreword to Aaron
Hillegass’ book, Cocoa Programming for Mac OS
X.
In it, he offers a bit of advice that I’ve never seen in any other
programming book: that getting eight hours’ sleep is important. He
goes
so far as to say that when learning something new and complex, one
should get ten hours’ sleep. He caps off the advice with a fact that
many of us know, but ignore:
Caffeine is no substitute for
sleep.
So that’s my plan for the next little while: to stop fighting the urge
to read “just one more chapter” or “just one more web site” or do
“just
one more thing” and get some proper shut-eye. I’ve been doing it for
the past couple of days and already feel a little sharper.