Another Day In The Code Mines

It's an actual game now! So, first things first - here's the current version of Rocks! Rocks! New features include: updat...

A New Year Brings a Fresh Start I swear, I'm not going to start this post out with how disappointed I am at my lack of writing output ...

The simplest possible computer So, if we were going to build a model of the simplest possible computer, where would we start? As it turns o...

I'm working on a "book" in my spare time. I put book in quotes there, because I don't know that it'll actually get to ...

Okay, it's now been more than a year and a half since I updated this blog. I need to get back on the horse. Stay tuned for an update soo...

I've been working in JavaScript a lot these last couple of months, and I feel like I've learned a lot. I wanted to show some of the ...

My latest creation is now up on the iTunes App Store. It's called PuzzleTwist , and it's a puzzle game where you unscramble a pictur...

I'm recovering from a head cold today, so rather than try to do heavy programming work, I decided to write up a personal story that I...

Six Apps In Six Months - or, Why Mark Can't Schedule That was the plan, anyway - but I haven't been able to keep myself on track. It...

I'm trying an experiment. There's a free version of Pictems up on the App Store now, loaded with just the subset of items appropriat...

I'm trying to clean out some of the unused/unloved technology around the house. An interesting case that I'm currently working on is...

It won't even scale images correctly if I use the "upload image" tool. Oh, well. click the image to see the full comic...

400 pages down, 450 to go. Here's my impression so far, with a little help from xkcd : Conspiracy Theories String Theory

I'm currently struggling my way through Stephen Wolfram's book A New Kind Of Science . So far, I've made it to about page 200 or...

I updated my Blogger layout to the "new and improved" form of the old layout. I'm not sure how "improved" it is, but...

I have ranted about this before, I know, but I'm a little irritated. Every single time I update the iPhone tools, I run into some crazy ...

Okay, so here's an example of where dropping out of math classes after Differential Equations is coming back to bite me a bit. I'm w...

A couple of posts ago , I said: Hopefully backsliding on the Java thing doesn't mean I'm about to backslide on the WoW thing - I can...

Okay, rant mode on. As I was waiting for Eclipse to launch again today, it occured to me that one of the enduring mysteries of Java (and C#/...

It's election day today in America. THis is just a quick reminder for all my friends out there to get out and vote. Vote. Even if "...