Pierre-Simon De Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer. In 1796 he formulated a nebular hypothesis of cosmic origin and was one of the first scientists to postulate the existence of black holes. He later proposed a solution to irregularities in Newton’s calculations and presented them in a [...]
25. November 2009
Adding Comments to Wordpress Pages
It really annoyed me that my static pages didn’t have comments enabled, so I searched around and came up with a solution.
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21. October 2009
Growing A Language
I watched this video in its entirety. I found it very interesting how he got his point across.
Guy Steele’s keynote at the 1998 ACM OOPSLA conference on “Growing a Language” discusses the importance of and issues associated with designing a programming language that can be grown by its users.
7. September 2009
LOL Monday – You’re Pushing my Buttons!
If men and women had control panels, this is what they might look like…
31. August 2009
LOL Monday – Standards
I have read my fair share of documentation outlining standards and specifications. I am no genius, but 95% of the time they make no sense to me. Perhaps this is why.
The US standard railroad gauge (width between the two rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That’s an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used?
Because [...]
24. August 2009
LOL Monday – New Element Discovered!
Physicists at the University of Colorado recently announced the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. This new element has been tentatively named “Administratium”. Administratium has 1 neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 111 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
Each Administratium atom is held together by sub-atomic [...]
17. August 2009
LOL Monday – Selective Luddite
I certainly did not write this because I do not abhor cellphones. In fact it is a rare occasion you see me without one. While all the examples do not reflect myself, I am definitively a selective Luddite! Are you?
I have been called a nerd, a geek, a guru, and any other number of names [...]
13. August 2009
NAND and NOR
In addition to the logical operations defined here – computer scientists have defined two other operations (which are merely abstractions of operations defined in my previous article) since they are used so often. They are NAND and NOR, symbolically ↑ (|) and ↓ (⊥). I say they are abstractions because they are simply the negation [...]
12. August 2009
Basic Logic
The modern computer is perhaps one of the most complex and perplexing yet ever so simple creations known. The entire personal computer only knows of two numbers – zero and one. Everything you see or do is simply an abstraction. These ones and zeros are called binary and are used to perform logical operations. The [...]
10. August 2009
LOL Monday – Computers: male or female?
Ships are commonly referred to as females, but what about computers? To answer that question, a study was set up with two groups of computer experts. The first was comprised of women, and the second of men. Each group was asked to recommend whether computers should be referred to in the feminine gender or the [...]
27. November 2009
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