The MonthlyDigest page has been sitting around unused for a while, so I'm changing the approach.
I update the DailyLinks page nearly daily, but it is a mixture of links to damned near everything I run across that looks even vaguely interesting. I'll be using the MonthlyDigest to categorize and organize those links that are more interesting, or more focused on my current interests.
Rails has been generating a lot of buzz for the past couple months. I haven't gotten any further with it than the tutorial at onlamp (linked somewhere on DailyLinks), but I'm impressed. If nothing else, rails imposes almost no barrier to entry. It's a clean implementation of model-view-controller. The model is driven from the underlying application database schema, customizable and extensible, of course.
The latest release of rails (0.11.2) has ajax support built in. I haven't tried this yet, but the hype is cool.
I'm re-learning Spanish. I can still get by, but after years of not speaking Spanish I'm pretty rusty. I can still read a newspaper with reasonable speed and comprehension, but most novels are pretty tough going. So, I'm devoting some effort to get my skills back up. I've been going to a Spanish conversation group one night a week at the local Barnes and Noble. This has been helpful in some ways, though I'm afraid that my accent will go all to hell if I keep going. Many of the people there have excellent vocabulary and OK grammar, but their accents are, for the most part, atrocious.
Anyway, I've put up a few links to learning resources at SpanishLanguage.
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Motion Induced Blindness Steady fixation favours disappearance, blinks or gaze shifts induce reappearance. All in all reminiscent of the Troxler effect, but stronger and more resistant to residual eye movements.
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