I try to avoid the meta stuff as much as possible, but I’d like to send my best wishes to Jesse James Garrett, who has put his uniformly excellent weblog on indefinite hiatus. Good luck, Jesse.
Lovers of computer science history and nostalgia will find the story of John Lions and his banned set of books on the original Unix source code fasciniting. His comments on the source code, reprinted in 1996, are available at Amazon.com under the title Lions’ Commentary on Unix : With Source Code.
Despite the fact that it uses an unwieldy frames-based layout, the Internet FAQ Consortium is still a great resource for finding Usenet FAQs and other useful reference information.
I’m looking for a concise explanation of how Internet email works. RFC 821 and RFC 822 are nice, but I’m looking for something a bit more basic. Please send email if you can help me out. (You would think that the Internet Mail Consortium would provide this information, but they don’t seem to.)
My current favorite snack: olive oil potato chips. I like the black pepper variety, but Whole Foods doesn’t have them in their online catalog.
Would you pay a million bucks for someone to come up with a name as stupid as Agilent? I hope not. Ruth Shalit blows this whole self-parodying “industry” wide open in Salon today. One wonders how people so absurd could take themselves so seriously.