I went to look at an apartment this evening. Yikes! was it small. I wasn't really expecting it to be "the one." I really just needed to get started on my search, lest I end up in some crummy place. If anyone comes across a cool 4 1/2 in Downtown Montreal (or old mtl), with a washer/dryer hookup, not on the ground floor, let me know!

Larry over at Lagtime is the latest "Ed's Weblog Affiliate". Check it out!

Learning how to code (I mean *really* code) has been on my todo list for about a year or two now. The effort it will take is daunting, and the payback, well, I guess that's up to me. In any case, it's this buried desire that makes we want to read through Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ from beginning to end. And if C++ doesn't turn out to be my cup of tea, well there's always Visual Basic.

More coding stuff: patterns.

For those Jyhad players in the audience, here's a cool little app that you can use to build decks without having to rifle though boxes and boxes of cards.

An article on how chalking up last week's cyber-attacks on teenage hackers just having fun may not be the smartest thing to do.

Compared to an Apple event, the Windows 2000 launch sounds like it was hell.

A look at some of the bomber technology the US is developing. (Mind you, if it's in a magazine, that means they've already got it up and running.)

I've been spending some time on the Usenet recently (via Deja), and I find myself wishing that there would be more summaries like this available.

#Quick_Takes

Iran's chess war (via Salon)

Eros is 'no ordinary rock' (via BBC)

Looking at the World Through Aqua-Colored Glasses (via BYTE)

Old Apple Macintosh Team Aims to Put Linux on the Desktop (via NYTimes)