Monthly Archives: February 2010

The case of the open file handle

I did a rewrite of the Processing.js test suite code to get around a bug Al hit on Linux.  In doing so, I hit another nasty bug that Ted eventually solved.  I needed to get an escaped version of JavaScript or Processing code loaded into the js shell via the -f flag.  Previously I had [...]
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Flatbreads

On the weekends I try to devote myself to as much time in the kitchen as I can, and to focus on attempting something I haven’t tried before.  This past weekend, for reasons I’m not clear on myself, I was interested in flatbread.  I wanted to share a number of observations I made: As with all [...]
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Bad Gr@mm3r?

The Globe picked up a Canadian Press article today, whose title echos the favourite refrain of big media and other institutional onlookers of so called social media: “Students failing because of Twitter, texting.”  In it the author cites some “solid evidence” for the demise of writing skills at the post secondary level: Ontario’s Waterloo University is [...]
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