22:40:05 kurt: HOLY [bleep]!
22:40:10 kurt: I think it worked
22:40:24 hans: you’re a pro
22:40:47 kurt: I can’t actually imagine a computer, much less excel, doing what I wanted it to.
22:40:50 kurt: I’m floored
22:40:56 kurt: that was fun
22:41:02 hans: welcome to my world, where the humans are in charge.
22:41:04 kurt: I wanna be a programmer now
Monthly Archives: August 2004
Where the humans are in charge
August 29, 2004 – 12:00 am
Pier 57
August 29, 2004 – 12:00 am
Joshua Kinberg was arrested yesterday, for vandalizing sidewalks with chalk. 263 other cyclists were also arrested and detained at Pier 57. They were riding as part of Critical Mass, which seeks to raise awareness of bicycles as vehicles. You know, “share the road,” “we have a right to the pavement, too,” and […]
Silver Hammer
August 17, 2004 – 12:00 am
When the pope dies, the cardinal chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the holy Roman Church (currently Eduardo Cardinal Martinez Somalo) ascertains the pope’s death, traditionally by calling the pope three times by his baptismal name without response. The ritual of striking the head with a silver hammer (which would later be used to break the Fisherman’s Ring […]
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August 13, 2004 – 12:00 am
This posting is a community experiment that tests how a meme, represented by this blog posting, spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may also help to show which blogs (and aggregation sites) are most […]
Premature optimization is the root of all evil
August 12, 2004 – 4:05 pm
“Premature optimization is the root of all evil.” is a popular quote with mysterious origins. It is widely attributed to Donald Knuth, who apparently used it in Structured Program with goto Statements but later credits Tony Hoare.
Hoare, however, did not claim it when I queried him in January of 2004:
Dear Hans,
I’m sorry I have […]
Joshua Schachter to realize the URN
August 10, 2004 – 12:00 am
Between GeoURL, Loaf, and del.icio.us, Joshua Schachter seems to be a one-man show making the Semantic Web happen.
Now he’s planning to extend del.icio.us to support additional URIs (beyond mere URLs). ISBN URNs appear to be first. Perhaps this will harken the rebirth of the URN??
The Case Against W
August 7, 2004 – 10:39 am
Ron Reagan’s renown Esquire article doesn’t say anything new, but neatly sums up why I’ll be voting against Bush? at least as much as for John Kerry. Ryan pointed out that recent punditry treats as an assumption it is “wrong” to vote for Kerry because he is not Bush. I don’t think […]
