Time to Clear Your Head

Have you taken the time to reflect on 2004? Have you got your game plan down for 2005? This is it! It's time to tape up your fists and slam them into your gloves. This is the time to make sure your knee is wrapped, your mouthpiece is in your face mask, and you have your cup on. This is the time to leave the locker room. This is the time to burst out through the crowd, as the roar of their cheers and the lights of the arena cause a mad rush of adrenaline to course through your body. You can feel your pulse quickening, muscles wound tight like a spring, and small beads of sweat rolling down your face. It's game time!

Yeah, I haven't thought about it much either.

Smalltalk and my misinterpretations of life: Server, heal thy-self

Smalltalk and my misinterpretations of life: Server, heal thy-self provides a brief account of the joys of using a language environment that is capable of updating running code on the fly. This is something that I played with very briefly with Lisp and Portable Allegroserve. It's very powerful, compelling stuff to dynamically change running code and fix problems without having to down the server.

I really like the idea of having the server poll for released code. That's something I would like to try sometime. I imagine you could pull this off with CVS using tags. Hmmm...

I've been thinking that my wife and I need a centralized, web-accessible address book for keeping all our contacts. This became painfully obvious when it came time to send out Christmas cards this year. I'm thinking of writing it in Lisp. I'm sure solutions exist, but this gives me an excuse to play with Lisp for web development. Plus, I may be able to incorporate the idea of dynamically updating from CVS.

So many projects, so little time... :-)

WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Thomas P.M. Barnett: The Worldchanging Interview

WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Thomas P.M. Barnett: The Worldchanging Interview

This is fascinating. Barnett is a senior researcher at the U.S. Naval War College. He’s elaborating on the connection between economic development and peaceful societies. He’s analyzed where our troop deployments have occurred in the past years and realized that they are in certain areas of the world that share common traits. The ironic thing is that those areas of the world are not the ones the U.S. has been preparing for war with.