I’d like to learn Lisp.
I’ve dabbled in Scheme, I’ve poked at Python, but I’d really like to sit down and write a substantial piece of Lisp code [1].
Lisp seems to be the ultimate judo in algorithms, and there are no end of essays on the Web to convince you of that. Lisp practitioners almost [...]

I’ve got two kinds of people I want to talk to today: programmers and actors.
First things first. Let’s define some terms. Well, really just one term: The Text.
Programmers, most of your time as a programmer is spent working on other people’s programs. Likewise, actors, most of your time as actors is spent putting [...]

Over at Jon Rentzsh’s Red Shed, there was a bit of a discussion begun recently about using virtual machines as a sort of antivirus mechanism.
Since Jon doesn’t include a comment form with his posts, and since I reckon he’d rather not become the middle-man for an extended discussion, I wanted to post my additional comments [...]