Geek

So I’ve started the countdown to my first cataract surgery. I wasn’t going to blog much about this, but I’ve found that although the web is full of text and video links for cataract surgery (in humans and other animals!), most are commercial or professional pieces. There seem to be relatively few first-person accounts of…

(Via Abstruse Goose.) In my first year at Essex University (1969) I took a maths course which introduced us to the topic of partial differential equations. I had studied ordinary differential equations at the RGS in High Wycombe (part of the syllabus for “A” Level Maths), but PDEs were mind-blowing by comparison. (No, I don’t…

TechFlash confirms what I Twittered about last night: We’ve been experiencing ongoing problems trying to connect to the Internet using AT&T’s 3G network via our iPhones over the past two days. As it turns out, we’re not alone. iPhone users in Seattle report sporadic service I had an important call scheduled for 8am today; at 8:10am…

Terry just posted a piece about UUCP, blogging, and digging back in Google Groups for early signs of life… The first UUCP posting that I can find of mine is dated November 20, 1985 – but that was just an administrative posting, announcing the addition of “suneast” to the UUCP network. My first real posting…

Remembering Colossal Cave.

Everybody here at Ignite Seattle! seems to hve a Macbook [Pro]. The talks start in ~20 minutes. Conveniently, this place is just around the corner from Elysian Fields… [LATER] I thought that was an excellent evening. Less time on fun and games, and more (and higher quality) talks. My favourites: Sheer fun: Scotto Moore on…

Here’s the Ignite Seattle 4 Schedule.

Enough of this semiconductor stuff: the future of computing lies in the wooden binary marble adding machine. ((Hat-tip to Alec.))

Today’s xkcd is just about perfect.

Just when I think I’ve got my blog looking the way I want it, along comes a compelling alternative: a WordPress theme that looks like “a command-line driven Commodore 64 interface”. I wonder if someone could build a Q*Bert widget to sit in the sidebar….