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Change My Approach

It’s been a while since I last posted anything to this blog. I have been extremely busy this semester so it’s hard for me to justify spending time writing blog posts. This is particularly true given that I’m blogging mostly as an experiment anyway. I think if I’m going to survive as a blogger IContinue reading “Change My Approach”

HTML Email is Not Evil

I’ve reviewed the various objections to the use of HTML in email and, honestly, I think they are all fallacies. In many cases the objections seem to be more about the way HTML email is implemented in current mail clients than about HTML email itself. The document here summarizes a number of common objections toContinue reading “HTML Email is Not Evil”

Concurrent and Real-Time Programming in Ada

BOOK REVIEW Concurrent and Real-Time Programming in Ada by Alan Burns and Andy Wellings. Copyright 2007. Published by Cambridge University Press. ISBN=978-0-521-86697-2. This book gives the reader a good foundation on how to do concurrent and real-time programming in Ada, while also exploring the new features in Ada 2005. The authors don’t bother to provideContinue reading “Concurrent and Real-Time Programming in Ada”

Blogs Are Pointless

I’ve been watching the increasing popularity of blogs with some interest. Yet I can’t figure out the point of them. Do people really think everyone in the world is interested in their thoughts? Blogs often contain collections of random posts that are related only by way of the blog author who posts them. Is thatContinue reading “Blogs Are Pointless”