A symbol is something that looks like ':symbol' in ruby code, where it is like a variable name but preceded by a colon character.

I have been using Ruby much more than Perl these days to do all my dirty work in scripting most text handling tasks, which I find it is much better at doing these days.

I was curious why I couldn’t fetch my mail to my laptop from Google’s gmail service, when it has been promptly dropping my mail onto my Blackberry.

There are some of the trivial bag of tricks that I don’t normally take notice, which does often comes back to bother me.

I am quite pleased that the gentoo-sources for the Linux kernel has been upgraded to use version 1.

It is just one of those things about Gentoo that I never could remember.

A language is a tool. When skilfully used, it allows you to craft great works.

In any Computer Science lectures that has anything to do with the topic of profiling, the story of how 'awk' got a performance boost by 25% just using gprof never fails to not be mentioned.