This is public answer to all who were asking why is my blog so badly neglected. Short answer is: It is because I am pretty active elsewhere and did not really find any additional time to allocate. If you are busy person, now you know, see ya later. If you are curious what elsewhere means, [...]
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Lost in the social networks
2009/05/17Weird kind of spam that passes through Akismet
2008/04/20Spam has always been a big problem for all blogs. Fortunately, worpress.com provides wonderfull Akismet spam filter which is works amazingly well. I do have switched on moderation for all comments, to make sure no spam gets through, but without Akismet it would be impossible to manage it because of the spam volume. Since I [...]
Finally over 16 :-)
2008/03/26I did not even notice that the visit counter left the 16 bit domain sometimes during last few days. Now it shows about 67 000 visits. Honestly, I am pleasantly surprised how many people found this blog worthy their time . Thanks to you all … Next boundary is of course 128K, 256K, 512K hits [...]
Joel's gems
2007/12/20One of the most readable, original blogers out there, writing on software development practice and techniques – Joel Spolsky – published an excellent 3 part Talk at Yale: Part1, Part2 and Part3. You will find out: – what two computer science courses were most useful in his university studies (one that was not really a [...]
Crossing bit boundaries
2007/11/19Today is a special day for this blog as two bit boundaries were crossed. This is post number 256, which means that I have used all 8 bit numbers for numbering and jumped into nine bit space. The byte is not enough any more – vive la 0×100. Another boundary crossed today is number of [...]
BOTD: Raganwald by Reg Braithwaite
2007/10/17Many good posts about programming, coding, business, aesthetics, with nice touch of wisdom, If you are into programming languages, do not miss this one, this and this. If you are more into process and management, try this and this or this. There also deeper and lighter stuff As Reg says about popular bloposts One model [...]
BOTD: Figuring out computer science
2007/10/05It is all about deep questions and problems computer science. Including the question whether such thing as computer science actually exists. I thing it does, but have occasional moments of doubts – mostly when I read something related to real science . What does Andreas Zwinkau (it is read as ts-win-cow, my anglophone friends ) [...]
BOTD: Michael's Thoughts
2007/10/04Good selection of news, observations and comments on stuff that is happening around. There seems to be pretty good match between what Michael considers blogworthy and my areas of interest – as I found there lot of interesting pieces. It is mostly news – but not only news. It is worth browsing through archive, just [...]
BOTD: The Reader
2007/09/22Today’s Blog of the Day is “The Reader”. Everything about ebooks and readers – all the stuff I like. See at http://wowio.wordpress.com/ Here I discovered that Sony is assumably preparing new version of reader – PRS 505. From the changes that should be included, none is IMHO really so important. The memory capacity of the [...]
BOTD: Good Math, Bad Math
2007/09/14Today’s BOTD (Blog of the Day) is “Good Math, Bad math”. What it is about is summarized in its subtitle: Finding the fun in good math. Squashing the bad math and the fools who promote it. There is no need to add anything to this. Only maybe an URL: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/
