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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

The Poetry of Programming

Read an interview with Richard Gabriel, a Sun engineer, linked from IdeaJoy. ThinkGeek has the perfect t-shirt for this guy: Code Poet. Writing code certainly feels very similar to writing poetry. When I'm writing poetry, it feels like the center of my thinking is in a particular place,

Things that make you go "Hmm"

I don't know who it was that landed on this site via a Google search for Intellij and chainsaw, but they sound like my kind of person. My blog comes up top on that search.

Where the Brits are

We're not too hard to find. I can vouch for the Britishness of Hubby, Paul B, Jess, and my big sister Fiona. Other Brits on my bloglist are Simon Warren, Gary Turner, Burnt Toast, and Lionel Mandrake. But if you wanted to play Hunt the BritBlog, this is

Weather

STLToday.com says "Cloudy with a bit of snow," weather.telegraph.co.uk says "Heavy snow." The British site puts it better. Every so often when it snows in England, British Rail (or RailTrack, or whatever) claims it's the wrong sort of snow on

Thankfulness

Bene Diction's back, with a shiny new site. And there was much rejoicing. Ensemble's brought out a new game, Age of Mythology. It wants nearly a full gig to install into. Cats have an uncanny way of sensing which CD you need to use next, and

Buttonized

Made a Quantum Tea button: If you wanted a button to link to this blog, go ahead and grab a copy. Paint Shop Pro is a wonderful tool. You can't tell I had the day off work, can you? :-) American holidays are always a pleasant surprise.

YAWV (Yet Another Windows Virus)

From the BBC News report Computer virus insults victims Security experts are warning computer users to be on the look-out for an insulting worm that can serious harm a PC. Known as Winevar, the worm is spreading via e-mail as an attachment that infects computers running Windows. Winevar has a

Thanksgiving

It's a wee bit ironic that every Thanksgiving we've been in America, we end up being the ones cooking the turkey. Nashville TN with a whole pile of Southern Baptists, the Rydberg's last year, and this year's last minute meal with Emily,

Thoroughly aggregating

In theory, this blog should be part of Janes' Blogosphere now, and new posts should show to an aggregator bot that just happens to be passing. Woohoo!

And So It Begins

Today was the first snowfall. It's come early in revenge for last year's easy winter. Normally there are piles of frozen grey stuff at the edge of the road, every car goes grey from salt, you can't see the road markings under the ice,

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