Playoffs Widget Bumpdated...
So, now that we're in the second round, I'll pop in the next round into a linkblox widget.
Round 1 | Round 2 |
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Rants and musings of an old web jockey.
So, now that we're in the second round, I'll pop in the next round into a linkblox widget.
Round 1 | Round 2 |
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My brother in law has expressed a desire to learn to program (finally! :) So I'll place links here since there's an off chance that he'll red this blog. So here is what OS News is calling "A Beginner's Crash Course into Object Oriented Programming" and at first glance it does an OK job of walking through what the basics of OOP are. It's in PHP but that looks enough like other languages that it won't cause too much confusion.
Sharks send St. Loius home singing the Blues... What a great series. The sharks have stunned everyone by jumping from the Pacific Division bottom dwellers to the top of the charts. 1st in the division, 2nd in the conference and 3rd overall. Plus downing the Blues in 5 games gives them valuable rest time to heal up stars like Alyn McAuley, Scott Thornton and Milan Micalek. Bring on the... whoever... we can take 'em.
OK, so here is the OPML Viewer, repurposed to track the NHL Playoffs. I've got some ideas on how to make it much nicer interface-wise, but for an alpha... it's not too bad. I'll keep the source OPML updated daily so you can stay on top of the playoffs with me.
I'm gleefully reading and writing in the STLtoday.com Blues Talk forum. There are some knowledgable fans there, but a much higher percentage of smack talking homers. I think I'll post some of my better responses from there on this site for kicks.
It's Playoff season and the Sharks are not only in, but have secured the 2nd seed in the west. 3rd overall and face the Blues tonight.
So I spent last night installing Red Hat Linux 9 onto an IBM ThinkPad X31. Before I jumped in and started trashing filesystems (though love to wipe the slate clean) I read these three articles on the problems associated with this box.
I need to welcome David Temkin to the Blogosphere. His first foray into the WWoB is here at:davidtemkin.com.
Oh those Wacky Republicans...