I’ve wanted to write a physics engine for years and messing with Squeak made me want to try it in Flex. It wasn’t quite as easy as Squeak but it wasn’t too hard. (It probably needs flash 10 to work) … Continue reading
Took the kids to the Exploratorium today. It’s currently my favourite museum. Better even than OMSI (although they don’t serve beer at The Exploratorium. How come that hasn’t caught on outside Portland?)Â I wish San Jose had a decent museum. … Continue reading
I have been a Rhapsody subscriber for several years. The service they provide is fantastic: Think of a song. Any song. Play it. I suspect that people who suggest “try Pandora” (and there are many of you) probably don’t get … Continue reading
I feel a Technology Crisis coming on. Here were my clues: Exhibit A: I’ve been meaning to learn Flex for a while. I have got as far as “Hello World” four times now. Exhibit B: The Rhapsody client sucks. I … Continue reading
I have had my Squeezebox for a good while now but I just discovered that I have been missing its best feature. Squeezebox comes with SqueezeCenter – a piece of software that lets you remote control your Squeezebox from a … Continue reading
To save you going all the way to Project Euler to read it, I have copied problem 12 here for your puzzle solving convenience… The sequence of triangle numbers is generated by adding the natural numbers. So the 7th triangle … Continue reading
According to Kurzweil, the singularity (the moment when we will start to invent things instantaneously) will occur in 2045. According to me the singularity (the moment when I forget things fast than I can learn things) occurs in 2009. Every … Continue reading
Project Euler. Wasting time with Maths. My attempt at #3 is running now (which probably means it is wrong).
Over at www.developertesting.com, I wrote about the Monty Hall problem and how I was convinced of the answer by an unused variable in my Java simulation. Markus wrote a nice simulation in Squeak (dunno what it will do if you … Continue reading