Monthly Archives: June 2006

Becoming Silicon Valley

Joey deVilla has been riffing on Paul Graham’s recent essay, How to Be Silicon Valley. In his most recent post on this, he mentions Providence: I had an interesting conversation last weekend with a guy who lives in Providence, Rhode … Continue reading

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What Happens When You Google for Lyrics

From Geeklife: Songs in the Key of Pope: Cardinals took a vote and ack ack ack ack Cardinals shot some smoke ack ack ack ack Like this ack ack ack ack Like this ack ack ack ack All the papers … Continue reading

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Come and Learn about RI’s Statewide Wireless Network

I’ve been organizing a Town Hall-style event for Providence Geeks. It goes down next week: Wednesday June 21 at AS220, from 5pm to 6pm. Representatives of the RI-WINS project will be on hand to brief people on this effort, and … Continue reading

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Natural Language Game Programming with Inform 7

Liza Daly: “If you are a COBOL fan, you will love this language, and if you are not, the main thing you should know is that Inform 7 does not suck. It can do real work in a novel way.”

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Providence Geek Dinner: Wednesday, June 14th

We’ve just posted the announcement for the next Providence Geek Dinner. Head on over to the Providence Geeks weblog for all the details.

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