Garden Of Blog

This is interesting. Both my wife and I blog, so I am left wondering, additionally, “among people who blog, do women or men post more often?”

In our house, the prize goes to Jessica hands down, who has posted 893 times since 8/2005. I have “only” posted here 238 times since 4/2005.

Programmers: use Subversion? Ever tried TortoiseSVN on Windows (had you the misfortune to be developing there), and dug it?

Meet SCPlugin, a Subversion integrator for the Mac OS X Finder. I’ve put the brakes on evaluating new software lately, but this I’ve got to try. Even if I do see myself doing my commits on the command line well past retirement from coding for pay.

Jesus, Batman, who maintains this thing? Weak August effort.

Here is a wonderful article on the differences (or lack thereof) in human and computer reasoning. The topic is chess, but the implication, especially as phrased so eloquently at the end of the piece, is huge. I’ll reword it here with apologies to Arthur C. Clarke (whose “3rd Law” this is based on):

A sufficiently complex machine is indistinguishable from spirit.

Something for security geeks: battle of the anti-virus products.

Do skip on over to my lovely wife’s newly redesigned blog known worldwide as The Zucchini Patch. Now we’re both on WordPress and happier for it.

I just took the Perl Survey. You should, too, if you use Perl.