Archive for November, 2007

Counterfactuals in chess problems

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

The problem below is quoted from John Rice’s article “Just for a change” in The British Chess Problem Society’s magazine The Problemist Supplement #90 (September 2007).
Comins Mansfield
4 Pr Chess Amateur 1919

#2 (Mate in 2)

My Fantasy Web Thingy

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

I know the term ‘thingy’ isn’t exactly technical, but I use it to avoid premature specification, and especially to avoid the ‘framework vs library’ debate.
I am not completely happy with the way I run my website: the tools I’m using do not quite fit my preferred usage. Currently I’m using Wordpress for my blog, […]

“It seems like Google called for a party and forgot to order beer”

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

The Android SDK and documentation came up late yesterday and already this morning there were a thousand messages on the Android Developers discussion group. I’ve had a quick look and here are my first impressions:

Penryn

Monday, November 12th, 2007

This morning’s paper has a story on Intel’s launch of a new range of 45nm microprocessors (Intel launches range of 45nm microprocessors, FT, p.27). This family of processors is known as Penryn.
But that’s near here! Yes and no. Or rather, no and yes.
Dileep Bhandarkar on Intel’s tech blog says this name refers to Penryn, […]

Android and the Open Handset Alliance

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

This story is all over the net and the papers. Most of the stories just regurgitate the official press releases, which are here. By now everyone will know what it is, so I won’t bore you with that here.
The OHA developers’ page says that they “will make available an early look at the […]