Notes from Gates Knighting
My notes on Bill Gates knighthood ceremony finally were posted on Friday.
more ...My notes on Bill Gates knighthood ceremony finally were posted on Friday.
more ...A comedy writer named Nate Kushner received an IM from a college student, who commissioned him to write her a paper on Hinduism. Because it’s on Hinduism, Kushner could refer to such things as the “Shudahelupta class,” without necessarily alerting the student that she was turning in a patently …
more ...Converting Journal Notes to XML, SVG, and OneNote [via ]{style="FONT-STYLE: italic"}[brains-N-brawn.com\< ?xml:namespace prefix = o />]
This is the kind of ruthless competence that gives a bad name to the rest of us writers.
more ...::: {.Section1} The Daily WTF is always great, but this Perl script is priceless. I’ve got to come up with something like this to send to my editors when I blow a deadline. (The original post accidentally left the guilty party’s real email in the listing. I obfuscated it …
more ...Spending “three to eight hours per day” on his link blog has overwhelmed Scoble. It's a little unclear how blogging is incorporated into the Microsoft workday; it appears that while Microsoft has a commendable “blogging is good” attitude, I think it's supposed to be done on your own time (I …
more ...IronPython 0.7 has been released and placed into a GotDotNet workspace. I spoke with Jim Hugunin yesterday about the release. He says that it is essentially a minor upgrade to IronPython 0.6; the real news is that he is going to become more active in the project. He …
more ...[Infected by Brad Wilson]{.556184619-22032005}
more ...You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
[“The idea is you memorize a book and repeat it over and over again until your grandchildren run from the room whenever you open your mouth and start quoting, 'Mr. Popper's Penguins,' or …
So last night I signed up for “Amazon Prime,” which provides “all you can eat” express shipping for a year for \$79. This is a great deal for me now that I live in Hawaii, since media mail to Hawaii can take weeks.
So I dropped a couple books in …
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