Today is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. So it only seems fitting to start off my linkdump with this Wikipedia page, which I recently pored over. It interests me that even though this is a bonafide historical event, there's so much mystique and mythos surrounding it, so much so that the 1997 Titanic movie was #1 in box office history for 12 years. Learning about the sinking of the Titanic is a lot like a puzzle, pieced together from the accounts of survivors, as well as the relatively recent discovery of the wreckage in 1985.
I was introduced to this in one of my CS classes as an option for deploying a Jenkins (automated build) server. I recently got myself a linode, so I don't NEED the AWS account, but Amazon's services are pretty diverse and user friendly even for someone with much less experience than myself. It's nice to know that I could deploy a micro Unix or Windows server to test stuff out relatively risk-free. I just have to be careful about incurring fees... Though most of the time it seems like I run little risk of doing so, as long as I don't introduce my test apps to public traffic.
My interest in Prolog has been piqued since we were introduced to it in cs152. While googling around for some insight on an assignment, I found the Prologomenon blog, which chronicles a Prolog enthusiast's experiments and thoughts about the the language. A shame it's on hiatus!
This Prolog tutorial from CSU Pomona has proven to be quite useful to me while learning the language. I am now vaguely considering a project or two based on Prolog--more realistically, a database query system for my and Jon's music collection, and eventually, an attempt at building a Cleverbot type chat-AI with the personality of Yaishin Higura, the Maintainer-AI of Eskarne. Just for kicks!
I recently discovered that the creator of a comic I read in my early college years has a Tumblr account, where he's expanded his reperoire from adult comics laced with dark humor to insightful vignettes about the depressive condition. I also suffered depression for a significant period of my life, as chronicled in earlier incarnations of this blog, and Clay's courage in being up front with his condition and drawing to help spread awareness is inspiring to me. It almost makes me think of bringing back my old, cathartic entries, perhaps archived in one place off the main page somewhere.
This is a hilarous blog by a certified geek who loves sci-fi (particularly Trek), anime, David Bowie, and apparently, your mom. I've been strongly considering ways to connect my blog with others', in part because I'd like to make friends (or at least, now-and-then geeky acquaintances) with folks that share common interests with me. I see no reason why I need to give up being a fangirl just because I'm getting a little older. ;)
