“Ads by Goooooogle”, and graphics in text-only AdSense

Google’s AdSense ads (which cover the hosting costs of this blog and forum) have always spotted an “Ads by Google” text link for identification purposes, and to send feedback. Though for about 2 months now (since December 2006), Google has been playing around with alternative marks. Problogger reports that the changes are just an ongoing [...]

3 Reasons to not get a Video Gaming Degree

The Australian has published an article, expressing a concern at rush to study for degrees in computer games. You know there are problems when academics are “terrified” over the popularity of their own courses, which is just the case with Queensland University of Technology’s Bachelor of Games and Interactive Entertainment.

The head of the campus’s IT [...]

Fantasy fun with regular expressions

Just for a bit of fun, here is a comic relief from xkcd – a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. I generally enjoy obscure Math and Programming jokes, so this one on regular expressions has earned a honest LOL.

Whenever I learn a new skill, I concoct elaborate fantasy scenarios where it lets me [...]