Keith Devens .com

Links

• Canonware Onyx, stack-based programming language -- via LtU
• eXist, "Open Source XML Database".
• Learning OCaml, for C, C++, Perl and Java programmers
• Regular expressions to Match WinXP Filepaths
• Color Calculator for RGB, CMYK, and HTML color values -- via Digital Media Minute
• Bizarre pictures from cheap digital camera!! -- via IP
• Glenn Reynolds has interesting stuff about the Novak/Plame issue and journalistic confidentiality. Glenn has more here.
• "'most' equals 'fourteen percent'"
• Two speeches by Michael Crichton (one, two) -- both via IP (one, two). Haven't read them yet, but Crichton's speeches have been interesting before. Comments at Belmont Club
• Fascinating poll results for a poll by the BBC, which the BBC chose to shelve when they got the results. Sort of like the EU antisemitism report.
• A whole roundup on bias (etc.) at the LA Times -- via IP
• Mark Steyn's state of the world [to read] -- via IP.
• Hot and Hotter: Security Challenges in 2004 [to read], by Austin Bay -- via IP. I've liked what I've read before from Austin Bay.
• No one seems to be bothering to find out what happened with the oil for food program in Iraq. "I would like to know if one of our big media organizations is at work on one of the most disturbing mysteries of our time--where the billions in UN Oil-for-Food money in Iraq went and how it got there. Why aren't the LAT, the NYT and WaPo on this?" -- via IP
• This seems like it's more evidence of this -- via IP.

Sorry for so many links to or via Reynolds. That's what happens when I have to catch up on lots of reading after being "away" in one form or another for so long.

• Interesting post that's too long for me to finish reading right now The Things Democrats Carry by Armed Liberal at Winds of Change.
• A new version of K9, the Bayesian spam filter I use, version 1.22, is out.
• Scientists Have Found That Scientists Are Often Wrong -- via 0xDECAFBAD
• The Four Percent Solution. I've been wanting to read and write something about Prester Scott's comments as well as the Barna study this is based on, but I haven't gotten to. At least the link can be in my weblog instead of on my desktop.
• Jeremy on social software. And again. See this for comparison. And this. And this.
• Jeremy on Hardware Failures

Unfortunately, while I made it with InstaPundit, I think it may be too much for me to get myself up to date with How Appealing

• Tim Bray: Introducing the TPSM, the "Technology Predictor Success Matrix". I wonder how much similarity his analysis will have with the Worse is Better school of thought. Update: first piece, the winners, is out.
• Tim Bray: To Customer Service
• Governor Dean: Worst Nuke Security Rating in US
• Changing the Face of Foreign Aid. Finally our country is reevaluating who we give foreign aid to. We'll see how their evaluation turns out.
• Via LGF, a fascinating article about snipers in Iraq at the NY Times.
• HSQLDB, "100% Java Database" -- via Glen, via Erik
• Awesome panorama of Times Square (Quicktime) on New Year's -- via Matt.
• String concatenation using + operator considered bad -- via Erik
• Ideal line length for content -- via Kayode
• http://www.fireflymovie.com/ -- via WHEDONesque
• Very useful looking Unicode decoder tools -- via Kayode
• Keith Gaughan: Manila Sucks Ass!
• Cox & Forkum: Countdown
• WordPress -- via Peter
• How Shrook's distributed checking works.
• I could say a lot about Josh Claybourn's post about The Burden of Proof. Maybe I will, later.
• RSS Bandwidth and Gzip compression -- via Erik

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