Computer Science Funding
Wednesday, 22 June 2005Here we have the very interesting testimony of William Wulf, President of the National Academy of Engineering, on the subject of Computer Science Research in the United States. Fortunately, Dr. Wulf takes advantage of the opportunity to sound the alarm regarding decreases in funding to all areas of science and engineering. He also makes some [...]
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Talking Sense
Friday, 17 June 2005I have mostly limited my political posting to linking lately, and I plan to continue that trend. (I haven’t been posting that much at all. And I’m sorry about that. But I basically post when I feel inspired to post. And that’s just the way it is around these parts.) But John Danforth, former Senator [...]
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Lazy Web Request…
Thursday, 16 June 2005My readership is so small that these requests usually don’t get much of a response… But, anyway… Does anyone have any recommendations on a powerful, easy to use HTML editor? I want to keep my professional website up to date, but having to actually dive into the HTML every time I need to update takes [...]
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Cringely on Apple and Intel
Sunday, 12 June 2005Robert X. Cringely has been asking some of the same questions that I have been asking about the Apple/Intel announcement. (Some of the questions I asked were in private email, actually, and Cringely asks them more elloquently than I. But the fact is that the Apple/Intel announcement still doesn’t make a lot of sense to [...]
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More On Apple
Thursday, 9 June 2005There’s really nothing like the Steve Jobs’s reality distortion field to make you a believer. Go watch his keynote address from the Apple WWDC. It’s an hour long, but it will change your perception of Apple’s transition to Intel. I still can’t say that I’m completely sold. I still think that Power architecture is a [...]
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The Nail in the Coffin
Tuesday, 7 June 2005I’ve been following New York City’s bid for the 2012 Olympics for some time. (I thought I had even written about it here before, but Google doesn’t seem to think so, and I don’t have time to search more exhaustively.) Well, it looks like the idiots in Albany pretty much killed the NYC Olympic bid [...]
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