Archive for November, 2009

Diversions: Canabalt

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

For those of you who follow my Twitter feed, you may have noticed several posts that led you to believe I’d taken up running as a pass time. In reality I’ve been spending my time a playing Canabalt. Written in just five days, sporting glorious 8-bit black-and-white graphics, and thoroughly addictive–Canabalt is possibly the best [...]

Recommended classes for computer science majors

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

This semester I am TA’ing a computer systems course. The most common questions I’m getting (aside from project help requests) are regarding classes to take it upcoming semesters. So, to that end, I thought I’d elaborate on my views regarding classes recommended for computer science majors. (I’m couching this discussion in generic terms, but after [...]

Some Free Mac Software

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

The gang over at MacHeist are giving away 6 free applications for the Macintosh. I’m not sure why, but they are. There’s no reason not to at least take at look at what’s on offer. If you’re already signed up with them, or at least don’t mind mind the possible e-mail marketing (they’ve never really [...]