http://www.mr-eel.com Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:33:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nerd that I am, I spent a few minutes of my Saturday morning playing around with the recently released Nintendo Channel for the Wii. It's pretty dull. Ads for games. Wow. Watching these is like watching any other ad on television — pointless. DS Demos… of old or frankly boring-sounding games — ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/135 What is this? >>= \cs -> A. Person in a boat? B. A Fish!? C. Some Haskell code Silly, it's some Haskell code of course. http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/134 I like a bit of symphonic death metal — blast-beats and choirs ftw. That said, I don't actually like a lot of the stuff that I hear. Most of it is frankly ridiculous, but I can deal with that as long as the tunes are good. And therein lies ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/133 Hello, I unfortunately have a complaint to make. Today I purchased a copy of Goldfrapp's Black Cherry. Tomorrow I'll be returning it to the shop where I bought it. It was only when I arrived home that I discovered the disc uses copy control. This means that I cannot for example rip ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/131 I picked up issue two of Transmetropolitan today. Jesus Christ on a Yamaha. I forgot how funny this shit is. I was reading it on the train on the way home after work. I had to stifle my laughter. I stopped reading it before I lost it completely. Anyhow, this is ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/130 So, what have I been doing? I know you probably haven't had that thought at all, but please allow me to use the conceit. Well I recently added this to my .bash_profile: alias lisp_for_great_victory=sbcl Yes, I've installed the Steel Bank Common Lisp. Yes, I'm learning Lisp. God I just hope I don't ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/129 I'm on some kinda streak here. I've actually been finishing games rather than getting bored with them right in the middle. I think it was actually Super Mario Galaxy that actually dug me out of the dumps. Anyhow I finished Silent Hill 0rigins this week. I put it down for ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/128 If you're just starting out using Sass, you can make things easier on yourself by having it automatically compile the stylesheets with every request. This tip applies to both Rails and Merb. Just add the following bit of code to your development.rb file. Sass::Plugin.options[:always_update] = true P.S. After being dubious for some ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/127 Well, I sat on this post for a little bit because I wanted to mull over things a little first. Hindsight often makes games less compelling than you thought they were when playing them. That's not the case with Mass Effect. It really is a very good game. For a bit ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/126 Just a quick heads-up. Merb has moved pretty quickly over the last few weeks, with lots of nice additions, code refactoring and general polish. Now, Merb 0.5 is out. You can install it via RubyGems. Ezra has release notes on his blog. Well done to all the devs! Merb just keeps looking ... http://www.mr-eel.com/archives/125