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Douglas Crockford's The Department of StyleHarmony
Brendan Eich compared me to Yoda, and then to Gandalf. More recently, Mark Miller compared me to Henry Fonda because the meetings of the TC39 (the group that maintains the ECMAScript standard) played a lot like a prison theater production of 12 Angry
Posted: Aug. 13, 2008 08:04 PM
Bats!
In 1980 I was working at Basic/Four Corporation. Someone I was working with had seen a game at a conference in which a player is chased around a field of electrified fences by deadly vampire bats. From that description I wrote a bats game in
Posted: Aug. 11, 2008 07:25 PM
A Terrorist Fist Jab
I like the New Yorker's Obama cover. I chuckled. I got the joke. I'm not angry, nor am I offended. It could have been drawn better. Maybe they were in a hurry.
Posted: Jul. 16, 2008 11:25 PM
Character Sets
In the early days of programming languages, before there were standardized character sets, each programming language would define its own character set. Some languages had arrows instead of = for assignment, which really makes much more sens
Posted: Jul. 11, 2008 12:19 PM
Las Vegas, Las Vegas
I was in Las Vegas recently. Bruce Vilanch was on permanent display at the east skybridge entrance of New York New York. Spooky.
Posted: Jul. 9, 2008 01:56 PM
Sleep Apnea
Lucy had a sleep test a couple of weeks ago and they found that she has what they call moderate sleep apnea. She is supposed to go back Monday night to find out if, and at what level, a CPAP machine might help. She is concerned abo
Posted: Jul. 5, 2008 06:35 PM
Telephone
I have a telephone instrument on my desk. I rarely use it. Most of the calls I get are recruiters, evil telemarketers, and wrong numbers. I mostly communicate with people using email, im, and the old reliable f2f. The office phone is as usef
Posted: Jul. 2, 2008 11:31 AM
Fireflops
The Ajaxians picked up Peter Michaud's story about another problematic Firefox feature. This one involves a second parameter to the sinister eval function that breaks closure encapsulation. Peter's story is timely, but it ain't news. This blunder has
Posted: Jun. 30, 2008 12:47 PM
Velocity 2008
This week I attended O'Reilly's Velocity conference. This was the maiden event for this conference, and excepting some trouble with space management, it came off really well. The talks were kept short and they kept to the schedule so there w
Posted: Jun. 25, 2008 12:03 PM
That's Morse Code! They're Still Alive!
Unicode is (or should be) the single encoding for the transmission of all of the world's text. But Hollywood teaches us that when all else fails, our very survival may depend on our knowledge of Morse Code. Samuel Morse was a portrait painte
Posted: Jun. 19, 2008 08:09 PM
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