ars technica: Google: more Macs mean higher IPv6 usage in US

The funny part is that the countries that will be affected the most by the IPv4 shortage, i.e. Asian countries, aren't in the top 6.
ars' article.

GM -> Chapter 11?

While I don't 100% agree with Philip Greenspun's theory "Let G.M. go bankrupt" - because the problems lie elsewhere - it is still an interesting read. Don't forget to read the comments - some are quite insightful.

Nice OpenGL ES overview

Brad Larson (Sunset Lake Software): Lessons from Molecules: OpenGL ES.
"(...) to rotate about the X-axis (imagine a rotisserie chicken)."
.. because we don't need another flashlight app on the iPhone.

After 76 months ..

.. (6.4 years) my PowerBook G4 (667) is going to retire.

2.53Ghz version

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Offtopic: Obama did it!

Perl Regexp not powerful enough

Bah: "Variable length lookbehind not implemented in regex"
Perl cannot handle this: (?<!\1|\\)('|")

Stored Procedures in MySQL

A great overview on the internals of MySQL Stored Procedures:
http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Internals_Stored_Programs.

Epydoc and Google's Appengine

The GUI of Epydoc, a Python documentation generator, skips files where it cannot resolve the imports. Pretty annoying, especially since the Google Appengine keeps its modules separate from the standard Python installation.
A quick hack is to modify "site-packages/epydoc/gui.py":

except ImportError, e:
  log.error(e)
  self._update_messages()
  self._root.bell()
-  return
+  #return

The Dark Knight

I couldn't resist, and went to the movie theatre today to see The Dark Knight - the newest Batman. Originally I thought is is based on Frank Miller's book " The Dark Knight Returns" .. but it is not.
Anyway, an excellent flick, but I was a Batman fan to begin with.