I joined this book swap site today. Of course, its utility grows with the size of the network.

Look how natural that looks. Doesn't that look good? Wouldn't you buy that? I'd buy that. My friends would buy that. You'd buy that. Of course you would.

Oh yeah.

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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2:34 PM :::

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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 …