It’s the season, and while I don’t think merely listing my wishes will make a lot of difference, here’s what I would like so see implemented in my favorite environment:

A BitTorrent library. The original BT is implemented in Python and comes with what looks like an extensive test suite, so this is mainly a lot […]

Stumbled over this one (by way of reddit, I think, but I’m not sure): Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years.
I don’t have a lot more to add than: +1

Well, well, well. After 15 years, the original NT group is being proven right: Microsoft is moving the graphics out of the kernel again, reversing a decision that lots and lots of people frowned upon when they moved graphics into the kernel between NT 3.51 and NT4. Back then, most people concluded that it was […]

Computer Visions: A Conversation with David Gelernter–David Gelernter is one of my “personal heroes”, as he’s probably the godfather of everything Jini and then some. I have collected all the papers of his group, it is great stuff, and his book, Mirror Worlds is still worth a read.
Ok, I might just differ with him […]

In Web Hosting - A Market for Lemons, David Welson treats the topic of how to chose a webhoster. I am very much in agreement with his conclusion: chosing a hosting company is basically relying on hearsay, taking a deep breath, swiping your credit card, and hope for the best.
That said, I must say […]

A nice list of alternatives for Ruby-on-Rails in other languages. Good to keep around if you need to do a project in your non-favorite language.
Less good: history rewriting is beginning. The author, Marcus Vonwaller, in his closing sentence:
I haven’t tried anything but the real thing (and I’m loving it) but I thought the list was […]

Someone has been very busy the last couple of days updating the Photo Wiki on my website, especially the sections on Yashica cameras.
Whoever you are–thanks a lot, it is most appreciated. It’s good to see that there are still people that know you can do other things with Wikis than linkspamming them…

I just had the idea to see whether some old, AardWorks Gossip-based code would still work and to my surprise it did. So that prompted me to refresh the public repository we have used for the project’s code, it hadn’t seen updates for quite some time (note to self: make a script to do all […]

Do you need a business administration background to unravel Merill Lynch reports? Take this: Sony to lose $1 billion on Playstation 3. No, that’s called investing. You invest money, in this case by sponsoring consoles (and probably the odd million for a marketing campaign), because your forecasts tell you that you’ll recoup it on software […]

I was looking (with one eye) to a Mythbusters episode on Discovery Europe. It was about whether yawning is contagious. They had some 50 subjects, and came out with 25% yawning in the control group versus 29% yawning in the exposed-to-yawning-group.
Adam and Jamie mentioned the numbers, and after some remark like “yeah, that looks […]