Today was the first day of my learning challenge for learning JavaScript. I started off slow with just 10 minutes reading through the excellent book Eloquent JavaScript 2e. I read through the first edition and it got me the closest to learning JavaScript of any of the books relating to …

I'm taking part in the 30 day learning challenge for Sea Change on the Zen Habits site. I'll be tacking the language that has managed to elude me the longest: JavaScript. I have tried many years to come to terms with JavaScript and each time I've failed to make any …

Apparently Hot Topic purchased Thinkgeek. I have mixed feeling on this. Strange also to see Geeknet mentioned as an afterthought, but then again Geeknet (aka: VA Research, VA Software, Sourceforge et. al) was just the umbrella for which a loose confederation of cool sites once thrived.

I used to work …

Thinking there's a version of Zeno's Paradox where the actual finishing of a project takes longer and longer the more you progress through it.

At least that's how it feels anytime I do anything of consequence. :)

For some strange reason I've become completely enamored with the Sinclair ZX Spectrum machine. It's utterly fascinating to me how a small number of chips and some clever programming can make such an amazing machine.

Have been reading through "The ZX Spectrum Ula: How to Design a Microcomputer" and "It's …