Productivity Tip #2
I recently realized that I’m actually two very different people. I’m one person at night, and another when the alarm clock goes off. My night-self, let us ca...
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Why Not to Write Shell Scripts
Don’t write shell script. Not in bash, and not in any other shell. There are two very simple reasons for this:
Productivity Tip #1
I lead a pretty busy life. Besides working full-time, I’m taking a very intensive university course in Japanese, I try to blog weekly, exercise, read lots of...
Programming Editors
I’ve used a wide range of programming editors throughout my life. From the glorious copy con and QBasic of the DOS days, through the Turbo C of my teenage ye...
Source Code Highlighting - In Blogger!
There are a great many posts on how to post syntax highlighted code in blogger. I can’t really understand why google doesn’t have a ready made solution in pl...
Project Euler
I’ve just stumbled upon Project Euler. It’s a nice little site with mathematical puzzles to be solved using a computer. For example, this first problem is to...
Programming with Vi
This page will serve as a place to store my notes on using vi as a programming editor. And when I mean vi, I really mean vim, but these days I think it’s pre...
Current Reading List
This page contains books I’m currently reading and the books I recommend, though I will probably not update it too diligently (last update-30’th of December,...
Learning Japanese
I started studying Japanese a couple of months ago. I decided to register for an intensive course at the local university. There were other places to go to,...
Some People Are Idiots
I’ve been sick for the past week and a half. The whole stay in bed, drink lots of tea, use entire rain-forest’s worth of tissue paper deal. It sucks. I’ve ev...