Monthly Archives: March 2008

My TweetSpeak Update

By Robert Fischer | Published: March 31, 2008

For those of you who are on Twitter, you might appreciate TweetSpeak. It makes Twitter a bit more like office banter by speaking it in the background. Here are some updates I made to it — basically, I added some error handling to deal with having too many client requests, put a few more substitutions [...]

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But what is it good for?

By Brian Hurt | Published: March 30, 2008

One of the things I don’t think I did well in my post on A Mathematician’s Lament is to properly state that I disagree with Paul Lockhart that Mathematics is inherently useless, but I understand why he takes that position. Mathematics is one of the most useful tools that mankind has ever invented. But to [...]

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Working on Rebuilding the Dialog

By Robert Fischer | Published: March 29, 2008

My blog posting has taken a bit of a break, because I’ve been working on a couple of projects and filling out an application for the Ocaml Summer Project based on CloudProxy and a couple of excellent programming students I know. Hopefully that works out: not to oversell it, but the project would be awesome [...]

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My Frustrations with REXML: Ruby’s Standard Library for Reading/Writing XML

By Robert Fischer | Published: March 24, 2008

So, I’m trying to do a little bit of XML reading/writing with Ruby. I used REXML, and the pain pissed me off enough to share my frustrations with the world. Hopefully someone can avoid the pain and suffering I put up with.

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“The Big Bang Theory”

By Robert Fischer | Published: March 24, 2008

There is a woefully underappreciated show on TV right now: “The Big Bang Theory”. The most recent episode — “The Cooper-Hofstadler Polarization” — was awesome. You can watch it right now at: CBS’s website. The show started out really rough, but with a charming cast. In the most recent few episodes, it’s really hit its [...]

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