I like Mercurial (hg). The obvious advantage of a distributed version control system (dvcs) is that each repository is equal. Among many other things, this is useful if you ever need to restore a repository (and all of its history) from a failed hard drive.

Way back in the day (wow nearly five years ago!), I made the transition of my personal documents into Subversion. Around about the time my central Subversion repository no longer became accessible to me I decided to investigate Mercurial as a new option. One thing that I like is that the repos are accessible over http, so it's pretty easy to set up. Read the rest of this entry ...

The cheap-ass way to blog:

• I'm a late-comer, but I've been enjoying Facebook lately. Feel free to look me up...
• Been having fun again working with C++ in the last month, fiddling with my hobby game development
• Rob and Candace came to Chicago for Blogher 07. Saturday we checked out the Museum of Science and Industry - bought a membership...
• Trying to get lots of little home improvement projects going - replacing a sink faucet, finish grouting shower tiles, building a vertical gardening structure - damn, it never ends!
• Sunday I bought the Woody Woodpecker DVD set and have been enjoying it so far. Gotta buy the Popeye DVD set some time this week too! What a year for classic cartoons - my kids are going to be spoiled...
• This morning I learned that Winnie, from the Wonder Years, is putting out a math book. Then I learned what an Erdős-Bacon Number is and had to laugh.