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Another great reason for Google video:

Golden Goose – A yearly talent show held at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. This video is a “live” performance of the first level from Super Mario Brothers.

I seems that Google labs have found that nearly all established simple binary search algorithms are broken. Sometimes being bigger IS better

I decided that it’s time for me to grow up and learn a compiled language, so I had a look around – there were the main ones – C, C++, Java or C# – I was talking to a friend and he said to look at C# because it’s so kickass. Cross compatibility, easy RAD, lots of resources – why not? It’s everything Java was supposed to be, but didn’t end up being

As you should know by now (just look at the last couple of posts) I’m a food nut.. oh, I mean a Linux nut. The Novell-sponsored Mono project seems the way to go, since I can’t exactly code in any of Microsoft’s IDE’s while using linux now can I?

So far I’ve read a few mini-tutorials, doing the “Hello World” thing in a GUI and on the console – it seems easy enough, bringing back memories of the last time I dealt with a compiled language – C in TAFE. I’ve gotten so used to scripted languages and their laziness (especially PHP) with variable definitions, I guess it’ll take a bit of learning to get things working how they are supposed to

My laptop’s definitely not what you’d class as a high-performance machine by any modern standards. It’s got a celeron 400 processor, 128MB of ram and a 6gb hdd. This doesn’t leave much room for an operating system with all the bells and whistles – Windows XP is definitely off the list – I’ve been running Windows 2000 Professional on it for the past six months so I could do things like simple graphics editing of my photographs on the run, and coding in my spare time at work.
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I’ve got a dollar, I’ve got a dollar, I’ve got a dollar hey hey hey hey!

A funny little song, and it applies to me! I was out in the carpark stretching my legs and getting some fresh air via my cigarette and found a shiny cold dollar on the ground – score!