How congress broke daylight savings time
- A letter to my congressional representatives (2007 November 02)
- Why the police shouldn't be for sale
- It's a question of sovereignty (2005 Nov 17)
- Why I no longer support NPR
- An open letter to Jane Christo, General Manager of WBUR Boston (2003 November 09)
- Men In Black
- Poster boys for critical thinking (1997 November 15)
- Net Films, Take Two
- Can Hollywood get the technology right? (1995 October)
- Energy in, Energy out
- Subtleties of pulse-width modulation amplifier operation (1993 May)
Pictorial Essays
Perl
- Module Mechanics
- How to build a perl module (2005 Mar 18)
- Module Anatomy
- A skeleton for a Perl module (1999 Oct 17)
- Module PODs
- How to document a perl module (1997 June 2)
- Program Anatomy
- A skeleton for a Perl program (1999 Oct 17)
- Program PODs
- How to document a perl program (1997 June 2)
- Idioms
- There's more than one way to say it... (1999 November 15)
- Perl & Linguistics
- Larry Wall on linguistic aspects of Perl (1995 July 27)
PerlMonth Articles
Perl Modules
Convert::yEnc
- yEnc decoder, with database of file parts
Game::Stones
- Play the game of Stones—an exercise in dynamic programming
News::Newsrc
- Manage newsrc files
Pod::Tree
- Parse a POD into a static tree.
Includes
Pod::Tree::HTML for translating PODs to HTML,
and Pod::Tree::Perl* for translating the Perl PODs to HTML.
Set::IntSpan
- Manage sets of integers, newsrc style: 1-7, 15, 23-28
Set::Window
- Manages an interval on the integer line
String::Levenshtein
- Computes the Levenshtein distance between two strings
Java Classes
Set.IntSpan
- Manage sets of integers, newsrc style: 1-7, 15, 23-28
Programming
- Long subroutines
- are run-on sentences
- A freeware heap
malloc() and free(),
with integrity tests and diagnostics
- Programming Paradigms
- it's a state of mind...
- The White Knight Explains Pointers
- (2003 Nov 26)
Outside Links
- Red
Family, Blue Family—Making sense of the values issue
- This explains a lot about the political situation in the United
States today. See also Cracks in the Wall, parts
I
II
III,
and Tunnels and Bridges, parts
I
II
III
IV.
-
Is There Anything Good About Men?
- Interesting take on the differences between men and women
-
The Programmers' Stone
- "We should be willing to look at the source code we produce not as
the end product of a more interesting process, but as an
artifact in its own right. It should look good stuck up on the wall."
-
In The Beginning Was The Command Line
- A long, incisive, and—in its own way—funny essay by sci-fi author
Neal Stephenson.
Nominally about the OS wars, it includes some interesting social commentary.
You can get a taste of it from this
cookie file.
Stupid Web Tricks
- These are a few of my favorite fortune cookies
- also in cookie and bugzilla format
(2004 Aug 24)
- John Conway's Game of Life
- implemented in JavaScript
- The Mad Hatter's Watch
- implemented in Scalable Vector Graphics (2006 Feb 03)
Travelogs
- Iceland
- Hell's parking lot (2001 Sep 05)
- Greenwich, England
- Telescopes and clocks (1999 Nov)
- Los Vegas
- Slot Machine Economics (1999 Apr)
- Los Angeles
- Myth and Reality (1987 Feb 16)
Tales From The Crypt
- Worst-case scenarios for the United States
- Africa, Russia, Mexico (2004 Dec 02)
- On Dealing with Head Hunters
- some cautionary tales(2003 Oct 02)
- Far Away Eyes
- Late-night Religious Talk Radio (2001 July 16)
- Toys in the Attic
- books, actually...
- Six Images of Lenin on the Keyboard
- and other surreal experiences
DNS
The name wikileaks.org does not reliably resolve to the IP address 88.80.13.160 in the Domain Name System (DNS).
As a public serivce, we provide the corresponding link here
Music
In LilyPond format
Bach
in memory
Steven McDougall /
resume /
swmcd@world.std.com /
2008 March 10
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