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Archive for December 3rd, 2002

2002-12-03

signs i’m getting through my mail backlog

A new and better patch for the old linux-wlan on the 2.4 kernel; an addition to How To Wash Dishes that was meant to be added in March (sorry Dave.)

omfg!!th1s tutor1al r0xxxors!1!!

A lesson in game design, hosted on IRC.

the vampecology of sunnydale

How many inhabitants does Sunnydale need to support its apparently limitless supply of vampires? Brian Thomas, PhD candidate in ecology at Stanford, investigates. (From More Like This)

perl advent calendar

It’s December, so it must be time for the Perl Advent Calendar: one CPAN module explained (with brief tutorial) every day. Day one taught me about finding URLs in text, day two explained how to write to files in place with automatic data recovery if it all goes wrong, and day three showed me a all-Perl Perl-and-C mini-SQL database in less than 300KB.