Tue Apr 23
New blog post about my vision impairment nystagmus and how it affects my quality of life.
They gave me a pencil to write with. It’s floppy and soft like a wet noodle. I didn’t know they made pencils like this. Can’t stab anyone with it, that’s the idea. Can barely write with it too, but it’s better than nothing. At least now I can document what happened in my own words, because I’m sure the damned...
Read on the website: Optimizing Guile Scheme is not always obvious. This post is a collection of takeaways from optimizing a heavily numeric piece of code.
fLaMEd’s post about instant messaging programs got me thinking about my own IM journey. I’m too young to really have experienced the peak AIM and MSN days, but I did use MSN/Windows Live Messenger in the late 00s to keep up with some online friends I had met through various forums. Eventually, I moved to Skype as...
Day 23 of NaPoWriMo. My poem A diamante. Hero/villain hero selfless, noble saving, giving, preserving good, order, chaos, evil killing, stealing, destroying selfish, cunning villain Featured poem A rondeau by Susan Jarvis Bryant. Silence by Susan Jarvis Bryant My silence listens to the crows Of bloviators'...
Apparently, there are a lot of Emacs purists in the world who, over the years, have learned to type such complex key sequences as C-x r t M-. C-c C-p fluently. I'm not one of them. And when I tried to figure out how to customize it for myself, the web forums were full of comments saying it wasn't a good idea....
The Culture MapBreaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global BusinessAuthor: Erin Meyer “The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business” by Erin Meyer is a highly insightful guide that explores how cultural differences impact international business interactions. Meyer presents a...
Recent is er verwarring: instellingen als SIDN claimen dat niemand in Europa nog in hun computerbehoeftes kan voorzien, en dat ze daarom wel moeten uitwijken naar Amerikaanse aanbieders. English version: Cloud Naïve: Europe and the ‘Bijenkorf’ Megascaler Tegelijkertijd hebben we in Nederland en Europa grote...