Now that my job has tanked, I suppose I have plenty of free time to do some side development. In a way it's a relief...commuting 1.5-2 hours each way every day was keeping me from doing a lot of things I wanted to do.

I'll dust off some old Python code I wrote that evolved 2D wheeled vehicles and post it up here soon. In the time I have between job searches, that is. :) Read more

Let's say you know the equation of a circle (r² = x² + y²), but want to calculate the area of a circle. And, uh, you forgot how to do that. Happens to all of us, honest.

Fortunately, we've got a little python program that uses the monte-carlo method to estimate the value of pi! Let's get going!