This article and this one (both by Paul Prescod) and this one by Sam Ruby I think are finally getting through my thick skull why "REST" is being used as a proxy statement for "the challenges that many Web Service developers will face." They're much better reading than the REST …

Apparently, someone fell for the Nigerian spam scam. Supposedly:

According to statistics presented at the International Conference on Advance Fee (419) Frauds in New York on Sept. 17, roughly 1 percent of the millions of people who receive 419 e-mails and faxes are successfully scammed.

Annual losses to the …

I've been working on ensuring compatibility with the upcoming .NET Framework 1.1 (and C# compiler v. 7.1) for the programs in Thinking in C#. Probably 98+% of the programs worked fine, although I'm seeing something very strange with one particular multithreading program. Almost undoubtedly, I introduced a defect …

HP will push .NET. Personally, I don't think of HP as a major force in influencing software development.

Liberty Alliance plans interoperability with Passport. Significantly good news.

NY Times has published the 10 Most Beautiful Experiments in Science. I can accept that nothing from Computer Science made the list, but to snub Michelson-Morley? An outrage!

Went to Stan Kelly-Bootle's 73rd birthday party last night. I drank like a fish, ate nothing, buttonholed Steve Bourne (Bourne shell, President of the ACM) about my attack on P != NP, got so wasted I sang Leaving of Liverpool. Stan, meanwhile, mesmerized 3 young women and then drank them under …

Make that twelve secret herbs and spices: pot sold at a local KFC

I was looking for images for a slide called "stateless by design" and somehow came across this collection of lurid pulp magazine covers. Totally cool! Now I'll have to change my talk so that somehow I can use Death Hitches A Ride. Hmmm... maybe something on deterministic finalization?

We had a major spider ballooning event today! I saw the first pieces from our house and then, from the top of Pine Mountain where I went to walk the dog more than a mile later, which is about 2 miles and almost exactly across the wind from us. It …