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If you've been following my "Offtopic" or "Hawaii" topics, you've been hearing me lament what it's been like assembling a non-standard desktop machine (dual processors, huge hard drives, All-in-Wonder 800XT) by mail order when you live 3,000 miles from the mainland. Well, aside from cleaning up the boxes everywhere …

My colleague Andrew Binstock, who's always been too busy making money to blog, disagrees with me that Ruby-the-language is crossing the chasm. He think that Rails is great, but is not enamored of Ruby-the-language. I, on the other hand, continue to be skeptical about Rails (has it changed the dialogue …

Firefox 1.5.06 is my default browser. It's acting a little strangely with some of the admin facilities on this site, though, so I just opened IE (7, beta 3). OK, but now I discover that when I type a URI into the IE addressbar, a new tab opens …

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According to Tim O'Reilly's always interesting quarterly analysis of the book industry, Ruby is doing extraordinarily well, with a 689% quarterly increase in sales and is now approaching Perl in terms of book sales.

Caveats include the (some would say profound) difference between book sales and use. Most Perl programmers …

On June 19, I posted 3 articles, "15 Exercises to Known a Programming Language," which came to the attention of Digg and was, for a few days, on the front page (and even the top item) in the Programming theme.

I've finally gotten around to reviewing my logs. While the …

I finally got a dual-processor motherboard that boots (a Tyan S2885) only to discover that I only have 2GB of "registered" DDRAM, making my other 4GB of RAM worthless on this computer. Well, easy enough to deal with later, I think, happily screwing the motherboard down into my case. Now …

AMD unveiled new chip pricing today, trying to steal some thunder from the outstanding reviews garnered by \<a href="http://www.knowing.net/ct.ashx?id=a33e3e93-f321-4afd-98ec-b909cfed4275&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.intel.com%2fproducts%2fprocessor%2fcore2%2findex.htm"" target=_blank rel="noopener noreferrer">Intel's Core2Duo chips. Personally, I've got …