Monthly Archives: May 2008

Two interesting conversations going on in comments, which people might want to check out if they haven’t before: An astute reader notes that I was playing fast-and-loose with the phrase “duck typing”, and that dynamic language duck typing is not quite the same as the structural typing offered by Ocaml. The conversation proceeds to analyze [...]

May 1, 2003 President Bush Announces Major Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended Remarks by the President from the USS Abraham Lincoln At Sea Off the Coast of San Diego, California THE PRESIDENT: “Thank you all very much. Admiral Kelly, Captain Card, officers and sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln, my fellow Americans: Major combat [...]

I tried Twitter out once upon a time, and didn’t really “get” it. I was only following a few people, and we didn’t really hit a critical mass of Tweets to keep my attention. Then Ruby.MN had a bunch of people join Twitter, and that was kind of neat, particularly when hooked up to TweetSpeak [...]