In some secluded rendezvous, That
overlooks the avenue, With someone sharing a delightful
chat,
Of this and that,
And cocktails for two. —”Cocktails for Two,” Words & Music
by Arthur Johnston & Sam Coslow
I’m at the Hackers Conference at the Chaminade spa/resort in Northern California. I turn on iChat,
the instant-messaging client that is […]

To judge from the early calls I’m getting from reporters, the Motion Picture Association of America is announcing today that they’re going to sue a bunch of folks who are trading movies online. I have mixed feelings about this. Obviously, it’s within the rights of MPAA members to sue people who are […]

Wednesday morning after the election, it’s clear to me that there’s going to be a lot of post-mortem criticisms of where the commercial popular polling went wrong this election year. Some of the criticisms will be, shall we say, a bit heated, but I am more interested in the criticisms that look pretty specifically […]

Today is the day that the Votemaster of Electoral Vote Predictor 2004 revealed himselft o be computer scientist Andrew S. Tanenbaum, the creator of MINIX, a precursor to GNU/Linux. I know it’s asking a lot on the day before the U.S. presidential election to turn your attention even for a moment to something arcane […]