I recently found a very good alternative to the ordinary TV/YouTube monotony out there: Google TechTalks

A Google TechTalk is usually a one hour presentation of technological topic. I personally find many of them very exciting, here is a list of talks I recently watched and liked:

You might have noticed the new link Tag search which directs you to a new page where you are asked to enter a query.

Julian and I have implemented a simple tag query language to be able to perform more complex searches over the tags:

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As the EIFFEL_ROOM is a pretty big room and has plenty of space available for all kind of things, a neat way to have some kind of order has to be available. The ultimate goal is to be able to keep total chaos on a reasonable distance without spending to much effort in doing so.

When I started to learn the C programming language I used a good book and just worked through all pages. Back then I was not very used to do "real" programming at all. I just had done a lot of BASIC programming. So reading about the different syntax and new unknown constructs like pointers was really exiting.