taw's blog

Recently there has been a big surge in popularity of both Ruby and Python. And with it came countless discussions on which one is better tha...

There was so much buzz about Erlang on reddit and elsewhere lately that it all made my actually try it out. The first impressions - contrar...

I've noticed a worrisome pattern about website discovery services like digg , reddit and StumbleUpon . They almost invariably return st...

Everybody is so concerned about genocides in Iraq and Liban, rise of neocon fascism in USA and RIAA's legal terrorism that they seem to ...

I recently found a copy of " Digital Fortress " by that guy who wrote Da Vinci Code lying around. Now as I was a bit tired with wr...

The thesis is: RenderMan Compiler for the RPU Ray Tracing Architecture . Here are the slides in PDF and SXI format. Now in the process I ...

Getting Things Done methodology is a great thing, especially the "Am I the right person to do it" part. What's the most amazi...

Languages vary in power. Like Paul Graham , let's take a language of intermediate power and call it Blub . Now someone who only speaks B...

I wrote a magic/xml tutorial . It documents how to use magic/xml to load, build, and query XML documents. I tried to limit it to the most im...

Movies I watched recently, more or less in order of enjoyability, all from IMDB Top 100 : Blade Runner (1982, 8.3, #99) - This movie is abs...