Sam Deane’s excellent site Elegant Chaos has been hacked: the home page looks like the following. SpyKids From Brasil ... We are: poerschke FDL Hualdo LordX ... spykids@bsdmail.com It’s hardly news, but if anyone has his email address, they might want to let him know. (SpyKids, or ScriptKiddies…?)
I’m thinking about leaving Blogsome: I’ve been pretty happy with their hosting solution, and bugs tend to eventually get fixed, but there are two issues I can’t continue to live without:
I’ve got an account set up on http://schinckel.globbo.org. I’ll probably continue to post here until I get the template/theme set up how I want, and then move everything over.
Boing Boing: Bottled water is evil You clearly haven’t tasted Adelaide water if you think you can’t tell the difference between bottled and tap water…
I have no burning desire to learn Java. I’m proficient in python, did a fair bit of Pascal about 12 years ago, followed by some C, a touch of C++, and recently a whole chunk of AppleScript. Daily, I possibly spend more time coding for bash than anything else, except hand-coding HTML. I’ve recently started playing around with PHP and MySQL, and ages ago did a bucn of JavaScript. I’m not saying learning another language is not a good idea. I just wouldn’t mind if the three tertiary institutions in my city didn’t only offer the same language as part of their Computer Science degrees. Not that I’m seriously considering going back to University. It just might be nice to find a course that taught python, Obj-C, or C++, rather than Java. Still, it might be fun to learn it…