<$BlogItemTitle$> Welcome to Orcmid's Lair, the playground for family connections, pastimes, and scholarly vocation -- the collected professional and recreational work of Dennis E. Hamilton

 
WIRED SCENARIOS - It's a Poor Workman Who Blames His Tools: John Perry Barlow.  I was looking for the source of the saying and I found this lovely read.
posted by Dennis at Friday, March 21, 2003

 
You and Your Research, Dr. Richard W. Hamming.  A lovely talk given at Bell Communications Research on March 7, 1986.
posted by Dennis at Friday, March 21, 2003

 
SIGGRAPH 2001 Online, Special Sessions, 2000 Turing Award Lecture: The Design of Design.  Fred Brook's slides and an MPEG of his lecture. Very nicely done.
posted by Dennis at Friday, March 21, 2003

 

Lots of Gleanings

InternetNews.com: PARC Cedes AspectJ Technology to Eclipse.  A Java extension for supporting Aspect Oriented Programming, the technology is going to show up as open source.
posted by Dennis at Wednesday, March 19, 2003

 
ACM: Ubiquity - The Power of Events.  This is a Frank Coyle's review of David Luckham's book, The Power of Events: An Introduction to Complex Event Processing in Distributed Enterprise Systems.
posted by Dennis at Wednesday, March 19, 2003

 
Shirky: Social Software and the Politics of Groups.  Looks at the unique aspects of group activity with the Internet, and also looks at the range of interests and approaches. An interesting site, pointed out by Gerrit on Coworking.
posted by Dennis at Tuesday, March 18, 2003

 
World of Ends.  A nice article by Doc Searls and David Weinberg on what the Internet is and the silly things we say about it.
posted by Dennis at Tuesday, March 18, 2003

 
Links to Pi Pages.  Another cool link page.  I got into this because I challenged someone to show me where to find a program that did the computation Turing showed was possible, rather than just repeat the claim.  I have been shamed into doing some of the homework myself by some marvelous digging by Stepen Harris.
posted by Dennis at Sunday, March 16, 2003

 
Pi 3.14159 - Friends of Pi Club.  Now, that's the spirit.
posted by Dennis at Sunday, March 16, 2003

 
Is Pi normal?.  This interesting tidbit, related to a discussion on computable numbers elsewhere, is part of a nice little site on Pi.
posted by Dennis at Sunday, March 16, 2003