Tuesday, February 25, 2003

Interviewing for Software types This artima.com article regarding interview opinions of various experts was a breath of fresh air. 8:38:22 PM    , comment [] Backmasking explained This article was a much welcome balance of objectivity to the loads of subjectivity I've heard regarding the existance of backwards messages in music.  This was reinforced by not one mention of Mr. Crowley. 8:36:35 PM    , comment [] Rattling on about Posting via Radio's RSS Reader I posted the Kevin Altis' post by clicking "post" off of Radio's news reader. (Post Grape Nuts are good eatin'. There, said it again.)  Anyway, I'll never do that again.  The permalink was nowhere to be found (although a link to Kevin's blog was), the original source wasn't block quoted, The original text reached out at my conscience screaming "Your plagarizing!", followed by a hushed "Hey, so that's why so many bloggers quotes and run-on comments are hard to discern..and the links don't take your right to the goods.", after posting I was greeted with [Macro error: Can't find a sub-table named "00000111".] I must admind there were many distractions. Baby Jude was keeping my left arm at bay, and I accidentally ALT+Backspaced instead of some other intended action and lost the first round.  I like the WYSIWYG editor (even though I have no clue whether the indent is a blockquote and and the hyperlink tool requires precise highlighting skills for edits (and forget about removal.) but realllly get riled when I am (usually accidentaly) launched to some other page and lose my work in progress.  I don't have this problem with ZWiki. :-)  I now know why external blog editors are popular. ...and I bet this HTML is quite kloddy. My wonderful wife is reading me the Mel Brooke's interview from ISBN:0872236447 while I write this. It's fun.  Powers that be: Is there an auto-convert for an ISBN phrase to a [automatically] link to book site? Ok, done rambling. Much more and it would no longer be terse. 8:22:21 PM    , comment [] Kevin Altis' Radio Weblog Kevin Altis' Radio Weblog covered the recent Python Scripting for .Net hackery much better than I.  He also covered the obscure Visual Python: Neither of these should be confused with Visual Python, which has nothing to do with running Python in the CLR or integrating with .NET, but rather: Visual Python is the high-productivity Python plug-in for Visual Studio .NET. Powerful, Python-specific features within the familiar Visual Studio environment provide ease of use and accelerated development cycles. He also has sound advice with pictures for configuring Outlook for mailing lists.  A good link to drop when someone on a mailing for "posts in HTML." Speaking of mailing lists, the PythonCard mailing list is an excellent example of a friendly and well managed project list.  Nifty app, too. 8:02:37 PM    , comment []

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