I hope this bodes well for a job I'm interviewing for this week...

• Concurrency is hard: Multiday Chinese traffic jam continues http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129395326 #
• There was a blog post not long ago saying like "MS is not a single company, but a marketing company for 100 companies" Anyone have link? #
• The "Netduino" an Arduino-pin-compatible shield programmable …

‘Not feeling it. Lungs not as full as they should be -- already feeling funky. Caught my fins at the surface for a sec. Bail out now and try again.’

These are my thoughts as I approach the first bleach bottle. I am upside down, pulling myself hand-by-hand down a rope …

• Disk Utility cannot fix my Mac boot drive. Time to find out how good Time Machine is... #
• Looks like my Mac crashes were due to the RAM boards having worked loose. Lost a day's work and another day fixing it, but all-in-all happy #
• The Sounds of Sorting http://bit.ly …

• Holy crap! 2 weeks I'm on vacation and someone proves P != NP? http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Vinay_Deolalikar/ #
• Wikipedia doesn't have a page for "replica symmetry breaking." Dang. Other than that, I would TOTALLY follow the P != NP paper. #
• P != NP AND "Rubik's Cube requires 20 moves" http …

I’m not sure that this one will break into the public consciousness, but Vinay Deolalikar of HP may have proved one of the major challenges in complexity theory, that P != NP. In addition to being a great intellectual success, this particular problem has very big practical implications. Luckily, though …

• Microsoft LightSwitch is the classic "v3 will be awesome" app. #
• Google Wave, we hardly knew ye http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html #
• Just passed a scooter / moped gang. #
• Parked on Tarmac in DEN. At least weather looks good -- home later today. #
• Realized those staring in airport mistook my …

• United airlines phone-based support for missing bags: blatant lies by policy or personal initiative? Sachim Malik and others. #ual #
• RIP Loren Heiny, a familiar name in the Tablet PC community. #
• Just scored box seats to Neil Young tonight! \o/ #
• At Muddy Buddy Chicago. Sitting in air conditioned Lincoln Town Car …

• "The Chemist" Dileep Rao excellent analysis of Inception http://bit.ly/aom1VB #
• Companies are astroturfing reviews of their own iPhone apps on App Store. Not surprising, but disappointing. #
• "A new kind of grammars that can produce the empty language is designed in this book." Indeed. http://amzn.to/bQWktb #
• Oh …