No? Well, some people do. A few years back, there was a great operating system called BeOS that began to make waves in the multimedia set. A small number of geeks just loved it. And a project to recreate the defunct operating system is getting close to releasing a fully functional, free version of BeOS.
"We were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp."
Guy Steele, co-author of the Java spec
Anti-Distraction Plugin?
06:37am MST, 17 Dec 2005
Along the lines of my other little article on distraction technology and my burst of Firefox enthusiasm, I'd really like to see more anti-distraction technologies. And the first place: in the browser. How about an anti-distraction extension for Firefox?
Escape From Distraction: When Less Tech is More
12:56pm MST, 12 Dec 2005
It's really nothing new. An article about the increasingly invasive and distracting effect of technology discusses some of the ways that people and companies are reacting to email overload, including "email-free Fridays" at one company.
It's been a while since I've written something really geeky here, but I just responded to question on a Linux mailing list and I thought it was useful to know. For most of my programming, web dev and other text editing I use a version of the highly geek-friendly vi editor, called Vim. One of its most useful features is pretty decent regular expression support.
Just had to say it. I've started working a bit with SOAP and it just seems to be unwieldy and inconsistently implemented. SOAP sucks. Unfortunately, SOAP also rocks for a lot of reasons.
The Metaverse
10:08am MST, 18 Aug 2002
An article on Slashdot discussed yet another attempt to create an online, persistent 3D world in the tradition of Gibson's matrix or Stephenson's Metaverse. I just don't think they get it.
Googling for Consensus Grammar
10:19am MST, 2 Aug 2002
I tend to do a lot of work with different languages, and I've discovered a method to help me that happens to jive with my perspective on grammar and linguistics.
