Thanks to Debian, I got pidgin 2.2.0 today, and with it, its new atrocious smiley theme—eyebrows and all. This prompted me to make a smiley theme out of Psi‘s old smileys, which I still remember liking the most.

You can download that theme here: PSI Smilies …

def fermat(n):
    """Returns triplets of the form x^n + y^n = z^n.
    Warning! Untested with n > 2.
    """
    from itertools import count
    for x in count(1):
        for y in range(1, x+1):
            for z in range(1, x**n+y**n + 1):
                if x**n + y**n …

You might have been trying to implement the new-style VTK XML file formats. And you might have realized that what they tell you in the file format “specification” is just incomplete. Well, here are a few bits of information missing from there:

Binary Blob Header: In front of every binary …

I’ve found it sad for a long time that I’ve read many books in my life, but my memory of them is slowly fading, and I would at least like to keep a list around. As you have probably guessed, you would not be reading this if I …

Here’s a chicken-and-egg problem for you. And you can be part of the egg. I’ll show you how in a minute.

I bet you’ve noticed that bajillions of websites have little links that say “next” and “previous”, right? Like previous page, previous item, previous whatever. And sometimes …

I’ve rolled a new release (20070826) of the Boost.Bindings library to track what’s currently going on in the Boost CVS tree leading up to release 1.35. What’s released works with current CVS as of 8/26/2007, I assume it will also work with the …

Ok, the spammers yet again figured out how to circumvent my anti-spam measures. So yet again, I’ve disabled anonymous commenting. Only this time it’s final. And I have a mess of seven bajillion comments to clean up.

I’m just so sick of these people: :barf:

For the first two weeks of August this summer, Frank and I went on a two-week trip through the northwestern United States. The trip was nothing short of amazing to me, and I’m having a hard time adjusting back to the dull (by comparison) life in Providence. We saw …