Dennis Ritchie obituary | Technology | The Guardian.
Ritchie was a huge influence on computers and computer science as I was entering the field. The Unix operating system, the language C, so much.
It’s quite interesting to visit Ritchies home page at Murray Hill. From that page, I love this old picture of Dennis & Ken Thompson
John McCarthy, AI pioneer, dies at 84 — Engadget.
Like Dennis Ritchie, I missed this when it happened. McCarthy pioneered LISP, a language I profoundly hated when I studied it, but it’s influences on computing and AI were profound.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve always loved Firefox. Maybe that’s why I’m so disappointed with the latest release. Part of the attraction of Firefox is that so much good software is written for it or as an add-on or plug-in for it.
So recently, when it asked me to upgrade, I did. What a mistake.
None of my favorite plugins work with it. It disabled them all and as far as I can tell, there’s no update on the horizon for them. It looks for all the world like a beta-test version. Had I wanted to beta-test it (and there are some products I’ve done that for), I would have downloaded the beta test version. But this one looks raw and untested.
Why the rush to get it out the door?
A few days ago, on CNN, I heard a woman say “The United States has the best health care system in the world”.
It does?
Well, if it did, you would expect it would be easy to find statistics to back this up. The US would show up at the top or near the top for all major health care statistics. Strangely enough, this doesn’t seem to be the case.
Blogger beware! Blog comments that don’t seem to offer a whole lot may be cleverly disguised pornographic spam. This happened to me recently.
This is too funny! A guy upset by what united airlines did to his expensive guitar produced a music video and posted it on youtube. (more…)
A trillion dollars will likely have been spent on the Iraq war by the time it is truly “over.” And, like Vietnam, for nothing. A trillion dollars to execute Saddam. A trillion dollars to create a hatred of our country that will live in the souls of Iraqis for generations to come. (more…)
from: The Huffington Post Lawrence Bender: Remembering David Carradine.
One of the most wonderful memories I have of David is from first day of training. (more…)
Koko Taylor. Sam Butera. David Carradine. All gone in the last day.
If you don’t know who these people are, here are some pointers. (more…)
I rediscovered the Kung Fu series only recently and completed the whole DVD set of season one a few days ago. I used the famous Grasshopper quote in my first post to this blog. In honour of Carradine, here are 2 more (more…)