Archive for the ‘Thoughts’ Category

Chess, Work, and Spam

So it turns out that wordpress has no sort of a “smart spam filter”.  Between April 4th and now, I got over 1,400 comments to this blag.  Now, that’s not all that bad, because I have to manually approve the comments.  However, it is eating up bandwidth on my home internet connection, and if a [...]

The Art of Escape

Being the purist that I am, I’ve often worried that there is no good way to escape text.  All of the paradigms I have seen do work, but whenever they recursively escape their self, they tend to grow exponentially (and often become extremely convoluted).  Also, there can usually be a contrived case in which the [...]