September 2008
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Patent annoyances
Reading over at BoS I saw something rather near and dear to my heart, discussion on the mp3 patents, as I had been looking into writing a player app of some sort (the player was secondary to some UI concerns I was considering, but it was music related) but had put it off. However now I don’t think it’s worth the bother, considering some time this year the mp3 licensing changed to be a...
August 2008
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Long time no post
With my day job being so hectic I haven’t had much time for intellectually stimulating programming (vb6 = not stimulating, at all). However I recently picked up a copy of PAIP (Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp) thanks to a 40% off coupon with Borders (40% off? Um, yeah going for the EXPENSIVE books).
While I’m not necessarily sure I want...