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I have only played one other game in the series, Railroad Tycoon II, but I am a really big fan of that game and I continue to play it today even though it is quite old now. When I heard that there was to be a new version out, Sid Meier’s Railroads!, I was [...]

I’d like to fit charting within the MVC architecture of Catalyst, which is to say that I’d like to be able to create documents that are charts, rather than documents that are rendered as HTML. Even though you can do almost anything in Perl, there really isn’t anything slick for charting. In Python, [...]

Lately, my Ubuntu laptop has been driving me up the wall. Everything has been really slow to start: gnome-terminal, Firefox, emacs, you name it. I’ve tried everything I could think of and scoured the internet. I removed fonts, altered init files, changed bootscripts, etc. Then, I discovered that everything goes back [...]

Sam Roweis has an immensely useful pair of cheatsheets on Matrix Identities and Gaussian Identities. I find them so useful that I tape them on the wall next to my desk. For that purpose, I wanted all four pages on one side. I used psbind the shrink the margins. I didn’t actually [...]

I just got back from the 2007 Cambridge University water polo tour. This year we went to Pisa, Italy. There are photos here.

As I continue to play with Catalyst, I found these instructions useful for installing it on Dreamhost.

There are a lot of neat things that I can almost do with Evolution, my Palm and webcal, but I don’t seem to be able to make them happen. It’s kind of annoying, actually. Even though I use Linux pretty much exclusively, this is the sort of thing that really drives me nuts: [...]

A while back, I wrote a little library to do plotting with Gnuplot and Lisp. In the time since then, I have gotten away from using much Lisp in my work. The library (if you can call it that) is called “cl-gnuplot” and you can get it here. To my surprise, some [...]