Sometime after Space War and Asteroids, but before color was widespread in arcade games, there was a 2-person vector-graphics game in which you and your friend drove "tractors" around and grabbed little diamonds (or whatever) from a pile in the center of the screen and dragged them back to your …

"I wrote an encryption algorithm with 612 bits of security." (I really like to imagine the 'notes' from the studio on this -- "I like how this establishes that Hansen is a very talented programmer, but let's bump it up 100 to show he was really good.")

"We need Linux servers …

From Miguel de Icaza comes word of Igor Moochnick's open source implementation of Powershell, the excellent (if frustratingly verbose in its default configuration) shell from Microsoft

Hmm.... this post advocating Collective Code Ownership as "the most important principle of XP" has a link to my comment on "bad programmers are not good programmers who are slow"

The implication is that either:

1. Counter-productive programmers are a myth and a scapegoat at all times, or
2. CCO is a …

Andrew Binstock says:

Ever-dependable O'Reilly just released Ruby Programming Language, which is without a doubt the definitive Ruby reference. Not only is it co-authored by Yukihiro "Matz" Matusmoto, the inventor of Ruby, but it is superbly well edited, so that every page is full of useful information presented clearly. And …

Oh great. The spammers have figured out how to abuse Google Calendar. I think they just add your email to their "Google Calendar" and Google helpfully reminds you.

Aloha Airlines, one of the more important carriers to Hawai'i, entered bankruptcy a few weeks ago and this morning announced the grounding of their passenger fleet effective tomorrow.

We have a friend in town who's stranded. We love having her, but she appears a little stressed. She doesn't drink, either …

OK, time to reset:

Attention is a finite resource...

At a party Saturday night, I carried on while doing an impersonation of Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood. Hopefully, no amount of alcohol will ever drown the shame and this will never ever happen again.

At PyCon, Microsoft demoed Django running on IronPython. This blog post detailing the code says "not quite complete but ... [good enough to] get Django's tutorial running." From a language geek standpoint, I prefer Ruby (those object-oriented grooves run deep), but IronPython is very clearly on the cusp of adulthood.

In …