Monthly Archives: November 2005

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Dinosaur Comics: The Video Game!
Thigh fives all around, there is a dinosaur comics video game. Stomp stuff and avoid angry dinosaurs. This game has awesome music. I cannot stress this enough!

Only a Game: Settlers of Catan: The Versatility of Elegant Design
Interesting article on Settlers of Catan (a fairly awesome game). Introduces a few house rules that I think we can try next time we play. Might help reduce the frequency of the… discussions… we get into while playing.

Can’t we all just get along?
Well, can’t we? Phil Johnson (the Pyromaniac) explains why abandoning the very possibility of having objectivity, authority and (most of all) truth makes conversing with postmodernists so difficult and a mine-filled experience.

Absolute Truth

You could fit one more in a mini...

Five wise, blind elephants were discussing what humans were like. Failing to agree, they decided to determine what humans were like by direct experience.

The first wise, blind elephant felt the human, and declared, ‘Humans are flat.’

The other wise, blind elephants, after similarly feeling the human, agreed.

From International Hobo

RodeoClown: thought this was a very profound joke.

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CodeGuru: Task Manager Extension
VERY handy tool if you muck around with task manager as much as I do

Daring Fireball: Ronco Spray-On Usability
Why Linux can’t have usability ‘tacked on’

Classic Mistakes Enumerated
A list of the most common mistakes that make software development fail (or fail to meet a deadline)

Coding Horror: For Best Results, Forget the Bonus
For BESTEST results, forget the bonus AND pay us all more :)

Coding Horror: Why do login dialogs have a “User” field?
Interesting discussion (read the discussion) on why (or why not) having a user name field for logging on to systems makes sense,

Revealing hidden assumptions in estimation
What you think goes into software development is often just imaginary

An Old Testament god (lowercase ‘g’)
Is there really a difference between God in the Old Testament and the New?

ID vs Evolution vs Creationism
The letter at the end pretty much sums up my opinion.

Cartoon X-Rays
Cartoon characters dissected and sketched – I like the PowerPuff Girls best

Why God?

Why God?

You are invited to join me at this event on Tuesday 6th of December.

Craig is talking at one of the seminars (the one on divorce) and I’m going to go join in. I’ve never met someone from the internet in person before, so it’s kind of scary, but I’m sure it’ll be cool. Also, I’m not planning on getting a divorce (ever), so don’t worry, I’m not going for advice on ending my marriage, just going to hear a friend talk about his life and how God fits in even when things go all pear-shaped.

Again, if anyone wants to come along, I’ll have my car in North Sydney on the day – let me know and I can pick you up… or take you home (assuming you are at least somewhere near where I am driving on that day :) ).

RodeoClown: doesn’t like antipasto OR wine.

Del.icio.us links

I’ve started using del.icio.us which is a ‘social linking tool’. Basically, I stick links on it that I think are cool/interesting, and other people can look at them. Handy no?

I found a wordpress plugin that (after some hacking) will create an entry for each new link it finds in my del.icio.us list and post it here. Meaning that if I see something cool, I can just stick the link in, and it will automagically appear here for you to read (if you want).

I’ve formatted these entries differently, as they are not full posts. I plan to modify the plugin some more in the future to condense each of the entries into a single entry whenever there are new links to post.

RodeoClown: hopes you enjoy looking at stuff he thought was interesting/cool.