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Posted in Uncategorized, slice-o-life, web on January 30th, 2010 1 Comment »
Posted in Uncategorized, slice-o-life, web on January 30th, 2010 1 Comment »
Posted in haskell, open source, slice-o-life on September 23rd, 2009 5 Comments »
Posted in hardware, slice-o-life on December 5th, 2008 38 Comments »
Twitter has become quite the hotbed of chatter about functional programming over the past few months, as a substantial number of pretty well known FP people have either been present all along or have signed up recently and started following each other.
Here is a list of people I know about who tweet about FP on [...]
Posted in climbing, slice-o-life on October 8th, 2008 12 Comments »
A few months ago, I tore the A4 pulley tendon in my right ring finger in a climbing accident. Yesterday, I had it reconstructed (completely ruptured tendons don’t heal) with a graft of tendon from my forearm. I can currently only type with one hand, so if I owe you an email, please be patient.
I [...]
Posted in slice-o-life on September 25th, 2008 No Comments »
I’m in Victoria, BC this week, at ICFP. I’ve been writing a few notes about the talks that have been taking place in my Twitter stream. Also Twittering from the conference is Don Stewart.
The Haskell symposium has gotten off to a great start, with very good talks that have blended practicality and theory.
Since CUFP (Commercial [...]
Posted in slice-o-life on June 21st, 2008 8 Comments »
I’ve had a Lenovo X60 for about 18 months. For almost a year, I was well pleased with its combination of light weight and decent performance, but then it developed a nasty thermal problem. Its idle temperature suddenly went from 45C to 55C, and any time I tried to do anything demanding, it would go [...]
Posted in slice-o-life on April 7th, 2008 1 Comment »
Posted in slice-o-life on August 8th, 2007 2 Comments »
Irish television hasn’t changed much since I left the country twelve years ago. The main national broadcaster, RTÉ, mainly serves up imported American and British shows, with locally originated fare dominated by vast quantities of sports coverage, a few soaps and talk shows, and the occasional documentary. It’s a tepid, uninspiring mix.
Except for one show, [...]
Posted in slice-o-life on June 30th, 2007 5 Comments »
Posted in haskell, slice-o-life on January 1st, 2007 2 Comments »