July 2005 - CraigBlog

CraigBlog

Syndication

  • How Very 1998 of Them

    If you've read my blog for a while, you know that I've long since left GotDotNet for SourceForge . Generally, I've been more happy there, particularly because I far prefer CVS to the crazy contraption GDN has, but not all is rosy. To start with, I find...
  • Beam Him Up

    James Doohan, the actor who played Scotty on the original Star Trek series, died Wednesday of complications related to pneumonia. He was 85. I think it's safe to say that the chief engineer on the Enterprise was an iconic figure to a pretty good portion...
  • Convergence

    As part of my undergraduate education, I spent a fair amount of time programming in Scheme , which is a dialect of LISP . At the time, I didn't really appreciate how truly powerful LISP is, but in the intervening years, as I've seen languages like C#...