Day 4 of the learning challenge and I'm playing around more with the Zeus / Monitor and Disassembler environment and learning about addition on 8-bit machines. One thing that finally crystallized for me was how registers (which are 8-bits in length) could hold larger numbers like addresses (answer: use two registers …

For the month of July I've decided to try to do what I initially thought I should do in June: Learn Machine Code on the ZX Spectrum. The ZX Spectrum for those who don't know is a machine that was released primarily in the UK and was the equivalent of …

During my JavaScript Learning Challenge I decided to move this blog over from Wordpress to Pelilcan. Not only was it "Great Moments in Procrastination" (the cleanest my house will ever be is directly proportional to the amount of stuff I don't want to work on) but it was also driven …

One of the comments I got during this challenge was along the lines of "I'm surprised you kept up with it this long"

Well, quell the surprise: I'm giving up JavaScript once again. For now.

The biggest reason for wrapping it up is I'm not ready to take JavaScript at …

Day 19, and I'm pretty tired. Started chapter 5 but am pretty sure I'm going to have to re-read it again. The topic is on higher-order functions and while I get the general gist of what the author is trying to say I'm not grokking it completely. Going to try …