Horn-tooting

(I was going to use "Omphaloskepsis" as the title, but it wouldn't have had quite the right texture. Thanks anyway, Mia. ;)

Liber Umbrarum is now second on the Top Ten Downloads, Last 30 Days list over at e23, and is currently the highest-rated product on e23, with a solid 5.00 rating. (It's only over 11 votes, mind, so the margin of error is 29% - the average rating could be as low as 3.5 - but I choose to be optimistic.)

I will grant that to hit #1 on Top Ten Downloads, Last 30 Days, Liber Umbrarum would have to get 40 more downloads - enough to put it on the Top Ten Downloads, All Time list - but I can be hopeful, right?

Now to run and pay the parking meter.

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Applying Mathematics to Escher's Print Gallery

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Law School In A Nutshell

To understand why legalese is so incomprehensible, think about it as the programming language Legal. It may have been clean and simple once, but that was before it suffered from a thousand years of feature creep and cut-and-paste coding. Sure, Legal is filled with bizzare keywords, strange syntax, and hideous redundancy, but what large piece of software isn't? Underneath the layers of cruft, serious work is taking place.

As always, one of the secrets of being a good coder is to be able to read someone else's code and recognize which parts were copied out of the Camel Book and which parts have been carefully tweaked for this particular project. It's okay to skim legal documents the same way you'd skim a long source file; you just have to know when to switch over to careful reading. One of the major goals of this walkthrough is to give you a better sense of when to skim and when to focus.

Testy

I'm testing color schemes. Probably nothing of any interest to anybody here.

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