Archive for January, 2008
Today’s one paragraph blog – One paragraph bloj
A lot of writers claim to admire brevity, but often writing still contains more sentences than necessary to express an idea. So that I can demonstrate that writing need not be long in most cases, I will be making more bloj entries that are reasonably short.
Today’s one paragraph blog – legal language
Legalese is nothing more than trying to write code in English, but English is a terrible language for precision and low ambiguity. We should just dispense with that and write it in Logjam.* *Or some language that makes it easier to be precise, comprehensive, and clear.
A sad day for me
Bill Gates has spent his last full day at Microsoft, and it’s sort of sad for me, marking the end of an era. While I’m sure he will continue to maintain an influence over the company, the days of his pioneering leadership are nearing a close. Bill Gates is my personal hero, which should come [...]
Call of Duty 4 review
Just beat Call of Duty 4, so here’s my review: Gameplay For anyone who’s played CoD1 or CoD2, the combat will feel very familiar. If you enjoyed the combat system of the previous games, you’ll enjoy the combat system in CoD4. The basic damage/weapon system is pretty much unchanged, except for the move to modern [...]