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A page with a few

A page with a few links about C programming. The most interesting link there is to Rob Pike’s cool essay Notes on Programming in C (which I already read).

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I’m looking up stuff on

I’m looking up stuff on Pirates for a one-shot RPG session (Duh) and I came across this site for a National Geographic film, called Pirates of the Whydah. Capt. Samuel Bellamy’s men read like a perfect PC party…

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WinXP: log on as admin

WinXP: log on as admin if you want to play games, MP3s?. New security systems baffle users [The Register]

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I must have seen this

I must have seen this before, it expresses a view similar to that in William Burroughs’ Red Cities of The Night, and it tries to re-tell the history of piracy from a social-criticism, left-wing perspective, boldly arguing that pirates were commies and homos.

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A search for Pirates turns

A search for Pirates turns up mostly personalities, including an Irish pirate queen with a shifting name and remarkable life story, Granuaile, Pirate Queen of Connaught.