The A9home by Advantage6 is the latest and greatest in RiscOS land. I personally never have used RiscOS, but Acorn was something special back when they invented a whole new machine (you know, the time that everyone could make his own processor…), and the people who like the RiscOS/ARM combination haven’t stopped.
What I like best, […]

By way of one of the many aggregators I watch, this article: Is Weak Typing Strong Enough?. He shares some insights from the trenches at Amazon, where he had the opportunity to watch Java and Perl hackers work side-by-side on the same system, often duplicating bits of code in their respective pieces.
Guess who “won” […]

Ah, great. The US judicial system can be trusted to uphold the US constitution: U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III pierced right through the crappy camouflage of the ID proponents and ruled that they’re trying to get creationism into the classroom.
Said the judge: “It is ironic that several of these individuals, who so […]

Nice - the “who visited Route U55 B&B in 2005″ pictures have been posted. Nostalgia for me, pictures of me and my old bike (may she rest in peace) here and here.
Skye rocks for bikers, and Richard’s B&B rocks even more. I’m already looking forward to another stay next year…

So, my website has seen another round of cleanups. My brother-in-law is a very good designer, and in exchange for a bottle of whiskey commented in detail on the last big change.
As a result, I have switched back to a sans-serif font, Trebuchet MS, and only that font. It makes the overall impression […]

For those who have been looking at Croquet and shrugged your shoulders because the 3D isn’t up to par with what popular games offer and well, game servers let you interact, no? This video goes beyond the nice looks and shows you what’s really special about Croquet: peer-to-peer, massively replicated computations, and lots of […]

Powers of Ten - Google Video. I love this sort of stuff. And nice to show the kids as well
(by way of reddit)

(oh - how do you like my new look by the way? I decided that serifed fonts don’t work on the web after all. Not if you are only “gifted” with my design qualities).
One of the things I set out to do a couple of years ago was to integrate the mish-mash of techniques used […]

Bruce Eckel welcomes the departure of the hyper-enthusiasts from Java to (he thinks) Ruby, so everyone can go back to work again.
Contrary to most of the language flamefests recently (did I say “recently”?), Bruce writes a very balanced piece, compares the state of affairs in various languages and frameworks (as far as he knows […]

Well, Google has been me-too-ing a lot lately, with mail and IM and other stuff the others (YaHoo, MSN) already offered, but somehow they always manage to add a twist. Whereas the others keep a tight lock on their chat networks, Google released code under the BSD license that allows you to integrate with the […]