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| Thursday, January 14th, 2010 | | 7:19 pm |
Still alive
I am still alive. Things have changed a lot since this journal was in regular use; if you are still looking for me, try http://jamesjoycewaskorean.com/ as this has any new content. Do not try to understand what I am doing now by anything below. | | Saturday, November 4th, 2006 | | 6:38 am |
| | Monday, August 21st, 2006 | | 4:02 pm |
You Are The Sky (my experimental webcomic thing), part 2 is now online. If you've not read part 1 before part 2, you probably should. Click on the image to advance to the next page. Part 2 is pages 31 to 60. Comments more than welcome. | | Thursday, July 20th, 2006 | | 12:33 pm |
| | Wednesday, October 19th, 2005 | | 11:02 pm |
| | Thursday, August 4th, 2005 | | 4:03 am |
Credo
Some very loosely-related [edit: not to mention pretentious and rather pointless] bullet points [edit: pointless points, haha] that seemed important at 4am this morning:
- User friendliness and theoretical rigour are not mutually exclusive.
- Security and convenience only fight beyond a certain point. To a great extent good security comes with good structure anyway.
- Structure is more important than "content", because the latter is merely an instance of the former. Most truly unique content attains this status by having a truly unique structure; this, in my opinion, is pretty much the definition of music, for example.
- Never send a flatfile to do a tree's job.
- Never send a tree to do a relational structure's job.
- The reverse does not apply; you can work "down" the chain of structures from a higher to a lower, but not sensibly vice versa. It's possible to argue that since memory and disc are more or less flat to start with, this means you must be able to work up, and I suppose you can, in the same way as you can chop down a tree with a crosshead screwdriver; if it's a very large screwdriver or a very small tree, then fair enough. Personally I dismiss this point by the technique of argumentum a "waving my hands about and pretending it doesn't exist"
- Object-oriented database attempts are a bit of a mess, really, and don't seem to be able to agree on exactly what they should do; they have the slightly fishy odour of a problem looking for a solution to me.
These can be roughly boiled down to:
- Word Processors are too easy to use.
- Relational Databases are nowhere near easy enough to use. (Not to mention functional programming, which feels close to databases to me... whether this is valid or not is entirely unknown at present, as I am too stupid to prove it either one way or the other)
The most important of these points is the first. The other amusing result to note is that the "entirely content" brigade (see: wikis and other distributed attention-seeking phenomena) and the "entirely structure" brigade (see: weird mathematicians and other distributed obsessive-compulsive phenomena) are heading towards exactly the same place, when structure is so finely defined that it becomes content, or when content is so loosely defined that all content has its own inestimable structure.
Likewise, in many ways the "check everything at compile-time" idea, taken to its logical conclusion, becomes an optimised and theoretically rigorous interpreter. This is not necessarily a sensible conclusion to which to take said idea, as logic is rarely sensible.
As to whether either of these conclusions is a good thing, I am in some doubt; fortunately I am not of the delusion that my opinion matters. | | Saturday, February 28th, 2004 | | 1:07 am |
Goodbye, Steve. You will be greatly missed, more so than I can sensibly say - the university, the town, and erisoc all seem a little greyer for your absence. God bless. I've nothing else to say. : jamesjoycewaskorean.com : | | Thursday, February 26th, 2004 | | 4:41 pm |
If anyone gets an email from lovecompatibilitytester.com, don't try to take the test. It's evil, has labrynthine terms and conditions, and will try to install some kind of spyware. Not pulled it to bits yet, I'm going to install Win98 on a fresh Virtual PC and have a play soon. This is a public service announcement and really isn't meant to be patronising. :P | | Thursday, October 16th, 2003 | | 4:04 pm |
"It hurts to breathe You fell away from me." | | Sunday, October 12th, 2003 | | 6:06 pm |
You know... this journal is almost entirely pointless. As is jjwk I suppose [which is down atm], but that one survives through being on the same service as perkinwarbeck. I just feel a bit uncomfortable trying to pretend that I have anything worth saying. Whoopee. Time for my Valerian. | | Saturday, October 11th, 2003 | | 7:09 pm |
Well...
... this Valerian + Caffeine certainly seems to be working... I'm even finding girlsarepretty funny as opposed to funny/upsetting. I do hope that it's not going to do me any lasting damage. | | Friday, October 10th, 2003 | | 8:18 am |
I came for you
"just to feel you Finally Break in two. I would that you spoke with no words Like paper cuts they hurt Cicada - Sing like it was afternoon already. Call for your Love, It is built soon to end This heart is." -- Mew, "Like Paper Cuts" [[ in hope that repetition will drive message home: my "journal" is now sited at jamesjoycewaskorean.com - other heinous random shit can be found at perkinwarbeck.com. Ta. Cheesey out. ]] | | Wednesday, July 16th, 2003 | | 11:26 am |
In the face of it...
in the face of it there's nothing left to write / and the more you try to understand / they'll be flying into your hands / tomorrow... -- Jon and Vangelis | | Sunday, June 29th, 2003 | | 1:34 am |
| | Monday, March 3rd, 2003 | | 4:42 pm |
Broken, broken, broken
If your body's feeling bad
And it's the only one you have
You want to take away the pain
Go out walking in the rain
Watch the flowers go to bed
Ask the man inside your head
Your spirit never has to grieve
All you've got to do's believe
The faith healer...-- Recoil (originally by Alex Harvey) - " Faith Healer" I hate tech problems. My blog is currently doooooown (as is perkinwarbeck and cheeseyfantasies - this last is victim of a sorry tale; I passionately hate my old high school), and has been for some time. If anyone wants tempest track 01, it's now here.[Oct2006] tempest trACK 01 is no longer available for download. If you see it available please contact me so I can ensure that it is removed. all licenses to redistribute my writing in this work have been revoked. the promise of new life... ...or not? | | Thursday, July 25th, 2002 | | 6:03 pm |
| | Sunday, May 5th, 2002 | | 2:14 am |
| | Saturday, April 20th, 2002 | | 1:28 am |
... but not any more.
My blog is back up... so now you can watch me being depressed and egotesticle (no, dear readers both, that is not a miss-smelling) in the stylish dark-blue surrounds of a custombuilt template, rather than the slightly purple rectangular layout of the LJ, which does rather lend itself better to cheerful ramblings. The Adventures of Perkin Warbeck, aka maggot16 is also back. Point and laugh, people, point and laugh. | | Thursday, April 18th, 2002 | | 3:16 pm |
Blog's down...
Life is just about keeping on walking and walking trudging one step at a time until you fall down the manhole of experience. Blessed are the blessed. Benedicite. Odd state of mind. I am myself and entirely myself. I need nobody. Nobody needs me. A dreadful freedom fnord. I know some of the blessed. I'm not one of them. | | Friday, March 15th, 2002 | | 12:07 pm |
That's it, avid audience (bless the two of you), this way, that's right, now follow this link to my all-new, all-singing, all-dancing, all-honking blog. I updated the last post but it somehow isn't the same, right? And if you still want your brain fried, take a peek at this. Wow. Fun. |
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