Interesting Eastercon stats

David Cook posts here with the results of a poll asking people what percentage of Eastercon visitors were male/female. Most people thought it was 60:40. His reading of the members list brings it out at 63:37. Which isn't bad at all, to be honest - certainly a long way from the stereotype.

Question for the Beltane people on my friends list...

Why is there no explanation of the Beltane event on the website? There's now a description of the various "personalities" in the Bestiary, but no timeline of what will happen on the hill over the course of the event. Every time I've been to Beltane (intermittently since 1993) I've found myself surrounded by people wondering what on earth is going on at any particular time...

More coding fun

Julie was around for the weekend, although she then vanished off this afternoon to slave over a report. It was very relaxing - and I'm leaving plenty of holes in my schedule to make sure we both get more relaxing time, at least until her work calms down again.

Meantime, I've discovered that C# 3.0 allows you to write code like this:

doggies.ForEach(
    dog => dog.Paws.ForEach(
        paw => paw.Claws.ForEach(
            claw => claw.Clip())));

which is the equivalent of the code from the other day, only even more concise. I don't think it's actually any more readable though. Lambda functions seem to be pretty neat - but I haven't spotted many places I'll be using them so far. Maybe when I've played with them a bit more...