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Friday, January the 2nd, 2004

I am quite linguistically biased though I try quite hard not to be. This transcends into my little geek world too as a generic dislike of all things not C/C++. Like eclipse [1], for instance. In my opinion Java [2] is slow and sucks and that’s that, and hence magically, eclipse does too. I did try it though, and I must say it is quite good. But I’ll stick to real men IDEs, like Emacs [3], for now.

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Click to enlarge if you’re really that curious.

Not getting off the geek train for just a little bit more, been fiddling around with gsl [5]’s love (or lack of it) for icc [6]. Then built gsl with gcc [7], as icc failed some checks. Just for fun, (no, not really) I was testing the same proggy under gcc and icc. Got different numbers. Hmm. And not close to (double precision) machine epsilon.

Just one more stop. I noticed on TechTV (yes, no surprise I watch it) and other places how awesome the Canon Rebel [8] is. I was, for just a little bit, not a believer. And then I saw her [9] [ EXTREME BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENT WARNING ]. And then it was all clear to me, my life had purpose. I knew what I wanted, until I saw her [10] [ EXTREME BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENT WARNING ]. Now I am back to where I started. Just a confused man running (slowly walking) around this rather complicated world.

Eitherway, anyone with brilliant (or even not so brilliant) ways to come up with a spare 1500$, should contact me ASAP.

Good, I needed that release.

pundit@emphaticallystatic.org