Monthly Archives: February 2004

(Via the Register). The US is responsible for over 50% of the world’s spam. Of course, many of the zombies that actually send the spam may be under control of evil Russian hackers, who are spamming for . . . … Continue reading →

Man, old stuff never dies. Here’s a web server that runs on a 2.0 Newton. I like the 2.0 unit that I recently got. Aside from the weight, it’s everything that I wish the first Newton had been. Except for … Continue reading →

A lunch conversation introduced me to the delightful game of Hackenbush. [Apparently, it's NP-hard, which I sure didn't expect. A quick google search turns up lots of references, which I won't bother repeating here].

Smalltalk traits here and here. Multiple inheritance without multiple inheritance. An awesome blog on .NET.

My great grandfather is buried here. Kind of creepy, to see your own name on a headstone…

Charles Stross has a web site (and a blog there, too). He’s the author of Singularity Sky, Toast and a bunch of short stories, some of which appear on his web site.

Here’s an interesting review of Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun. (litany:) If you haven’t read it…

Warning: Geekness ahead. The University of Washington broadcasts interesting colloquiums; here’s one on scheduling requests in web servers that caught my eye (because of some work that I helped do at a start-up, a few years ago). Here’s a paper … Continue reading →

Although not officially diagnosed as such, I think that I’m mildly dyslexic. Or maybe I just trasnpose letters and wix mords as often as other people do. At any rate, I was just on amazon.com, and thought I saw the … Continue reading →

An amusing series of “Computing Disasters I’ve been involved with” slides from Hot Chips 15. Panel part 1: Disasters I Have Been Involved With, Nick Tredennick Panel part 2: Disasters I Have Been Involved With, Bob Cousins Panel part 3: … Continue reading →