I’m trying to contact Ehud Lamm, owner and operator of the smarty-smart programming language weblog, Lambda the Ultimate (formerly at lambda.weblogs.com). Drop me a line at my business email address if you know how to reach him.
I’d received an earlier invitation to Google’s GMail
service (which currently is available by invitation only, guaranteeing
that only the cool geeks have it right now), but I told the guy who
invited me that there was someone who needed it more than I.
Later, I got another invitation, which I was going to accept, until I remembered that I owed Boris a favour for his loaning me his apartment in Montreal for a weekend last September.
Last week, I got a third invitation — this time from Adam Hill — and I finally took it. I plan to use it for blog-related communication. It’s accordionguy {the-ubiquitous-at-sign} gmail {the-equally-ubiquitous-full-stop} com.
Thanks, Adam!
Geek break!
Over the next little while, I’m going to be covering all manner of APIs
in near -obsessive detail. If you’re a programmer, I’m going to be your
new best friend. Watch this space for announcements.
Be sure to check out the blog I get paid to write — The Farm — where I’ve started to examine the classes of wxPython, starting with the humble wx.MessageDialog and Linus’ favourite debugging tool, the stdout/stderr window.
Last Sunday, Paul, The Redhead and I were enjoying an Atkins-friendly meat-a-riffic lunch at the Korean Grill House when Paul mentioned something about having your cake and eating it too.
Paul and I had recently seen the Dalai Lama at SkyDome,
and the bit about his interest in quantum physics must’ve stuck in my
brain. “Sure, you can have your cake and eat it too,” I quipped, “…if
it’s quantum cake!”
This amused Paul and I to no end; Wendy just shook her head at the
transformation of her boyfriend from sexy high-functioning geek to drooling Monty Python movie-quoter.
Later, I decided to Google the phrase “quantum cake”
to see if I’d come up with a truly original joke that would eventually
find its way to the web and earn me fame, fortune, money for nothing
and chicks for free. (It’s happened once before, and my joke pops up from time to time.)
It turns out that I’m almost original. Google returned a single page of results, one of which is this scientific paper on the subject (here’s the PDF version, and here’s an HTML conversion).
Saturday, April 17th, 2004 — 8:15 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.
Dave Winer, discussion leader
conference, not a developer’s conference. There are plenty of
conferences catering to developers, but few address the concerns and
needs of the users. Yes, as bloggers, we’re all users, but it’s too
easy for us to think like developers.
nor “speakers”; just a discussion leader and all of you, the
participants.
only had this and this…”, “Here’s what we need as an industry…”
There’s a strange poll in Dev Shed, a site for computer programmers: Soap or Body Wash?
As I write this, the poll results are:
Don’t forget my other blog, The Farm: The Tucows Developer Hangout. It’s the blog that I’m actually paid to write, so if you’ll visit it and even link to it, I’ll make my performance bonus and buy you a beer.
There’s PHP 5 information aplenty in today’s entries, as well as a
pointer to a stroy about the increasingly heated competition among game software
companies for developers. Check it out!