My long Christmas break is over, and I started going back to school this week. I thought I’d commemorate it with a few quotes about education and college.
“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” ~ Mark Twain
“Soap and education are not as [...]
I’ve been working on a little Flash-based shooter for a while now. The game is a fairly standard abstract vertical shooter with some nice visual effects and music. Here’s a screenshot of what it looks like right now:
Once it’s done it’ll be posted on crawlingspirit.com.
Answer: there’s nothing wrong with it. It improves the lives of children by bringing them into loving homes. Where’s the problem with that?
Apparently conservatives (such as luckily-not-president McCain) believe that allowing gay and lesbian couples to adopt is somehow bad or immoral. McCain had this to say about it:
I think that we’ve proven that both [...]
I’ve been a Dreamweaver user for a while now, but I thought it was about time to look at some of the free options available. I’d messed around with Nvu a bit a few years ago and thought it was impressive, so I was looking forward to some impressive free software in this area. I [...]
I’m a huge fan of Firefox, but it just doesn’t run well on my EEE PC (which runs Ubuntu Linux). Because of this, I’ve been researching alternate web browsers that run in Linux.
Epiphany is a browser for the GNOME desktop environment and is at the top of my list for great alternatives to Firefox. It’s [...]
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. ~ Alan Kay
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code [...]
Amtrak has an annual photo contest that has been running since 2003. Duane Kerzic was standing on the public platform in New York’s Penn Station, taking photos to enter in next year’s photo contest, when he was approached by Amtrak police. They asked him to delete his photos immediately, and he refused. He was subsequently [...]
I’m studying JAVA in school, but I’ve always felt Python was a more fun language, and I always recommend it to friends wanting to try programming for the first time. Here are a few good resources that can help you get going in your attempt to learn Python, whether it be your first language or [...]
One last night at my house — I went to sleep at 8:30am — and another one tomorrow night. I’m practically trading day for night here.