Posted in software on May 15th, 2005 No Comments »
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 itself ever since with tasks more important than letting me read my mail. According [...]
Posted in software on May 13th, 2005 1 Comment »
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 Renaissance in excrement, using your finger (to paraphrase a well-known Perl author). But let’s [...]
Posted in reading on May 13th, 2005 No Comments »
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 is a wonderful book.
So far, my favourite technical term from the book is “glitter [...]
