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Monthly Archives: May 2005
The innacurately named Mail 2.0
I’ve been attempting to use the latest version of Apple Mail to read my mail. An uncontroversial thing to do, you might think, but I can’t actually manage it. I started Mail about an hour ago, and it has busied…
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Higher order indifference
I had occasion to be in a bookstore yesterday, and came across Mark-Jason Dominus’s Higher Order Perl. Anyone wanting to do functional programming in Perl has to be seriously demented. Such activity is like reproducing the finest paintings of the…
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Color and Light in Nature
Each night, I read a few pages of Lynch and Livingstone’s compendium of natural optical phenomena. Although the writing is a little wooden, and they assume more of a background in physics than I possess, Color and Light in Nature…
Posted in reading
