Added the computer history web site to my All Lisp Search. I'm also checking to see if I can release some old lisp code I wrote.

Why does comp.lang.lisp attract so many kooks, crackpots, cranks and loonies?

Oldie, but goodie

Alan Bawden notes the superiority of Perl and Tcl over Scheme.

I got reddited

My partially formed article about programs being art got tagged on Reddit.

Put Evil up on the code site. Evil is my C++ to Scheme compiler. It was intended to be a hack to help me translate a pile of nasty C++ code for the Common Larceny project. It is definitely more of a hack than a production compiler, but it did what I wanted.

I always keep my computer up to date with the latest software, patches, drivers, etc. On Patch Tuesday I get the latest upgrades and install them. There were some new video drivers for my ATI card this week. I was happy to install them because the old ones are at least a year old. But I noticed last night that the video on the laptop LCD display was kind of blurry. I investigated and found that although the display is physically 1400 x 1050, the video was set to 1280x1024. Not only that, but there was no longer the option to set it to the correct resolution. It was obvious what was wrong, but it was not obvious how to fix it. I searched around and couldn't find anything that discussed this particular problem. Eventually I decided that I'd just restore to the save point of a day or two ago. After all, that is what the save points are for, right? In theory, anyway. I tried to do the restore, but each time, after it rebooted the computer several times, it popped up a window telling me that it couldn't restore to the save point and that it just left the machine alone. (At least it only wasted my time.) What is the point of saving periodically if you can't actually use the save? After some more poking around, I finally figured out that I could roll back the device driver update from the device properties. That worked. This is ridiculous, though.

Stupid software

Stupid blog lost a post. How am I supposed to rant? It's bad enough that I feel like I'm talking to myself here, but the damn computer isn't even listening.