March 2008
53 posts
catching up on email discussions and news
winding down with the girlfriend after a big day at SakuraCon
LAX goes reliably random →
Game theory algorithm improves security by putting police on unpredictable schedules
I get to attend this lecture: http://snurl.com/22rkk but I’ll miss the iPhone SDK talk in Seattle. tradeoffs…
pleased with progress and tone of on-site meetings so far. It’s always good to take concrete steps towards product releases!
Useless Whitespace - GNU Emacs Manual →
loading up my newsreader with lots of interesting to_read-tagged articles
preparing for another weeklong work session in LA
How is CLIM different? →
This explanation was adapted from a comp.lang.lisp post by Robert Strandh.
just got to place with Surface for the first time; the demos are pretty interesting, and seemingly as mature as iPhone apps / tech demos
listening to the soundtrack of 2001, and remembering Arhur C. Clarke’s stories (thanks to @LionKimbro)
figured out the long-term maintenance habits for my motorcycle
got Eddie Izzard tickets for July
Bloxes →
Bloxes are building blocks made of interlocking pieces of corrugated cardboard, folded together. Their unique shape and structure make them exceptionally strong and lightweight â you could build…
decompressing from 1000 miles of motorcycle riding across WA. who can spare the use of a hose so I can wash my motorcycle tomorrow?
rode all day across Washington state, through snow and sunny afternoons in canyons, now chilling (er, warming up) in Spokane
Vanguard I celebrates 50 years in space →
As part of the scientific program for the International Geophysical Year, the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) was officially delegated the responsibility of placing an artificial satellite with a…
HREF Considered Harmful: Ruby and other gems →
It’s complicated to explain Gemstone to people. It’s not just an object database (though it is that), and it’s not just a Smalltalk implementation (though it’s that, too). The best thing I can…
HREF Considered Harmful: Code as Screenplay →
Writing tests and reading code show you your program the way you want it to be, but only a debugger shows you the way your program is. Maybe screenwriters sit around in bars in LA and talk about how…
taking a break from an interesting AJAX / keyboard-accessibility coding sprint
also, Teatro Zinzanni was *amazing* on Sunday. I took my girlfriend there for her birthday
Motorcycle Roads, Routes, Rides & Maps |... →
User content site for planning motorcycle trips, using Google Maps.
Credit Scorers Find New Ways To Judge You -... →
Lenders increasingly are looking at other factors, such as rent and utility payments, to determine whether potential borrowers will make good on their loans. The financial-services industry began…
Orlando Sentinel - Is Ben Stein the new face of... →
Expelled makes good points about academic freedom and the ways unpopular ideas are shouted down in academia, the press and the culture. But not offering evidence to back your side, where the burden…
Keybinding reference for modern common web... →
KPCB - iFund™ Initiative →
KPCBâs iFund⢠is a $100M investment initiative that will fund market-changing ideas and products that extend the revolutionary new iPhone and iPod touch platform. The iFund⢠is agnostic to size…
we’re not ramping up on Seaside fast enough to pay off tomorrow; I think we’ll drop it as a requirement for this 6HS
halfway through a Squeak/Seaside introduction
oops, saturdayhouse doesn’t have a projector ready? who’s our usual donor?
wondering if XCode’s iPhone binary output will run on my totally-unlocked 1.1.4 phone
History suggests copyright crusade is a lost cause →
The fundamental lesson is that property rights are notâand never have beenâcreated by Congressional fiat. Property rights emerge spontaneously from the social fabric of a community. The job of…
Index of /history →
This is an attempt to assemble a full history of the evolution of Squeak including all images released and all updates ever posted. It currently covers Squeak 1.1 through 3.6 (which at the time of…
Prototype UI →
a 2.1GB iPhone SDK… this’ll be on bittorrent within a day… maybe it is already
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs — HBS... →
pondering iPhone developer announcments, including $100M VC fund
Cliché, not plagiarism, is the problem with... →
It used to be that thinking people would say, with at least a shred of pride, that their own convictions would not shrink to fit on a label or on a bumper sticker. But now it seems that the more…
updating my iPhone to 1.1.4 unlocked
seaside bugs/issues - Google Code →