http://www.henrymalthus.com/blog Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:01:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A couple months back I finally got around to purchasing some web hosting, and while I'm yet to build a nice, full site, I figured I'd show off a little project I made in Silverlight/C#. I present: Pong in Silverlight Update: I have now updated the game to work with the recently ... http://www.henrymalthus.com/blog/2008/09/silverlight-pong/ Sex and the semicolon at the Boston Globe. Nevertheless, the semicolon has been suffering. Paul Collins, in a recent Slate article, cited a study showing "a stunning drop in semicolon usage between the 18th and 19th centuries, from 68.1 semicolons per thousand words to just 17.7."You'd think a victory like that ... http://www.henrymalthus.com/blog/2008/08/one-for-jeremy/ Gustavo Duartes expresses why he's Lucky to be a Programmer: Few things are better than spending time in a creative haze, consumed by ideas, watching your work come to life, going to bed eager to wake up quickly and go try things out. I am not suggesting that excessive hours are ... http://www.henrymalthus.com/blog/2008/07/19th-century-advertising-an-electric-car-conways-law-and-why-gustavo-duartes-love-programming/ [via GamePolitics.com] http://www.henrymalthus.com/blog/2008/07/jack-thompson-was-right/ I'm beached as! http://www.henrymalthus.com/blog/2008/07/oh-nu/ Journalist A.J. Jacobs - writing for Esquire magazine - tries out Radical Honesty, making for some humourous encounters. An excerpt: My wife tells me a story about switching operating systems on her computer. In the middle, I have to go help our son with something, then forget to come back. "Do you ... http://www.henrymalthus.com/blog/2008/07/i-think-youre-fat/ VBS.TV's Illegal LA: The Immigration Plight in Los Angeles, Part 1 of 8: http://www.henrymalthus.com/blog/2008/07/vbstv-illegal-la/ Google seems to have added code snippets to the main Google Search results page. Here is a search for 'qsort': I knew that Google Code Search existed, but rarely use it, so this is a great feature to, at the very least, remind people that Code Search exists. http://www.henrymalthus.com/blog/2008/04/google-now-returning-code-search-snippets/ (Very subtle plug to follow...)ksubi's new site has hit the streets."a juxtaposition of complexity and simplicity, it manifests a non-directional and straightforward search engine design format"I've been working on this site for a little while now, and I am so totally stoked to see it go live.So, check it out!First, ... http://www.henrymalthus.com/blog/2008/03/ksubi/ In other news, interactive daschund beatboxing. And yes, it is as mad as it sounds (no pun intended). http://www.henrymalthus.com/blog/2008/02/daschund-beatboxing/