Simon Cozen’s posted a useful summary of Larry Wall’s annual The State of the Onion speech at the Open Source conference. This year, Larry actually talked about Perl, albeit in an unusual way.
Entries from July 2001
July 26th, 2001 · Comments Off
July 26th, 2001 · Comments Off
Here’s the proposed redesign for rc3.org.
July 25th, 2001 · Comments Off
O’Reilly’s coverage of the Open Source Convention is quite thorough, as you might expect. I’d like to go next year.
July 25th, 2001 · Comments Off
Now that I’ve finished American Gods, I’m on to Eric Schlosser’s book, Fast Food Nation (a gift from a reader). Anyway, the book is filled with fun facts. I’ll share them here as I read the book. The first fun fact is that, adjusted for inflation, the hourly wage of the average American [...]
July 25th, 2001 · Comments Off
To RCFoC and Jeffrey Harrow: fare thee well. (Jeffrey announced that publication of RCFoC is ceasing because he’s leaving Compaq.)
July 25th, 2001 · Comments Off
Declan McCullagh reports that support for the DMCA is still widely supported by the morons in Congress who passed it in the first place. And why should that surprise us? Their corporate masters are pleased as punch that they now have a large blunt instrument that they can use to punish anyone who [...]
July 25th, 2001 · Comments Off
I know everyone is linking to they rule, but I’m not going to let that stop me from pointing to it from here. Rarely do I find a new site that’s truly a useful research tool, but they rule is just such a site. Pick just about any big company and start expanding [...]
July 25th, 2001 · Comments Off
I read Neil Gaiman’s American Gods this weekend. Needless to say, since then I’ve been surfing mythology sites like mad to get the backgrounds of the various gods mentioned in the book. I knew a lot of the big name gods, but Gaiman also incorporates a ton of more obscure gods that have [...]
July 25th, 2001 · Comments Off
A couple of readers sent along a link to a Washington Post story explaining that one of the things AOL got for their Amazon investment was a takeover provision. It’s unclear how insidious this is, though — several analysts quoted said that this is a common provision when a company makes a large investment [...]
July 24th, 2001 · Comments Off
Rush Limbaugh really is a big fat idiot.
How many different versions of Satan, the devil, have you seen in your life? I mean, the comic book devil with the red face and the horns, seen that one. We’ve seen the Satanic devil of the horror films. We’ve seen the devil portrayed as just an average [...]