taw's blog

I'm hardly blogging these days, so I though I'd at least open a Twitter account - and here it is , and some stuff I've done rece...

The bigest difference between native support and bolting things on top of a programming language is that you can only bolt so much before th...

As a proud Cornucopian I'm tired of baseless claims of neo-Malthusian peakniks that cheap oil is over and it's time to eat dirt and...

I had a sudden attack of nostalgia today so I grabbed a few random Nintendo ROMs and tried to play them. Surprisingly while hardware SNES ha...

A few weeks ago I got a review copy of "Practical Ruby Projects: Ideas for the Eclectic Programmers" by Topher Cyll . The main par...

I've just found a DDR machine (of the good Euromix 2 kind) near the place I live, and I barely managed to do what a couple of years ago...

Back when I was at Universität des Saarlandes we had a great seminar at MPII . It was called "Data Processing Tips and Tricks" an...

Most computers these days are laptops. Their computing power got quite decent, and they're even becoming reasonably powerful for moderat...

I've found a weird quirk of Ruby's regular expression engine. The same quirk is present in Ruby 1.8.6, Ruby 1.9.0, and Perl 5.8.8, b...

My tooth hurt a bit in the last week, and it got really bad yesterday, so I called some 24h dental service . It wasn't as 24h as they cl...