learnings!

First one thing that's interesting to people other than me: elz made intro_to_cs, where we'll follow the MIT "Intro to Computer Science" course. All material is free and online, including video lectures, and I'll start in November. There's also people who'll start in January, and people doing one lecture a week or two. The course doesn't require programming experience and uses Python. If you're interested, come play!

I always wanted to do something like that, but learning on my own without any outside structure with timetables doesn't really work for me, so I'm very happy that elz is doing this. See you over there!

In other, more boring news: It's the weekend! I have time! Now I just have to use that time.... So here's a reminder to myself.
( things I want to do around here )

translation: how not to do it

(Does anyone know how to add alt-text on Picasa? I'm technologically ignorant and can't find it.)

Yesterday I was reading the latest news post, giggling along (refusing to cut pictures that don't even work in their own layout! Saying that they just don't feel like cutting, even though people complained a lot over the last uncut post! quoting people without attribution! changing the userinfo after someone pointed out that the post didn't agree with it!) ... good times.

So I thought: It's been a long time since I deleted my LJ. I wonder what changed? And I decided to try it out.

( This is how it's like. Gruesome. )