Monthly Archives: January 2004

The Mars rover Spirit has had a bit of trouble with its flash memory file system. This is amusing (to me) because I have a fair amount of experience in just this area, which has triggered a rather geeky reminisence … Continue reading →

i see some blue sky! yesterday it was raining winter in redmond

Well, are you? Also some news from the The MIT 2004 Spam Conference. [From the camram-spam -atsign- camram.org mailing list]

Don’t miss the 2nd International Dylan Conference in New Zealand. Newton had been going on for a number of years before I joined the project; it was originally a $10,000 tablet running Dylan “to the metal.” [Note many of Apple’s … Continue reading →

The US government might be relenting on the Eolas patent. It’s about time the USPTO admitted that the patent should never have been issued. What’s wrong with the patent process? Three things: A low bar to entry caused by incompetence … Continue reading →

One of my favorite Dr. Suess works is about the bee-meta-watchers. I’d like to link to a photo, but the only ones I’ve seen are of pretty bad quality (and the one on Geocities spawns evil bad popups). Along with … Continue reading →

I was viewing some of FYYFF’s site statistics. I don’t get that many hits (maybe 50 a day are real people, and for all I know only a couple of my friends ever read this stuff). What was interesting was … Continue reading →

After over ten years of lurking on the Cypherpunks (many links, many broken) mailing list, I finally unsubscribed. Five years ago it was fun. These days, it’s *all* noise and viruses.

An interesting set of interviews with Anders Hejlsberg, the chief head guy behind C#.

It’s the year of the monkey. Ook. It should also be noted that today is Boomtime, the 7 day of Chaos in the YOLD 3170 (4), according to the Discordian calendar. (There’s also supposed to be a New Discordian calendar, … Continue reading →