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Sunday, May 17th, 2009Early readers of this blog will remember that the original policy on comment copyrights caused some controversy. You can read about that in the posting Copyrights and Comments and especially in the interesting comment thread that followed. As promised, I took some time to think about it all, and to talk to some people whose […]
Greg Pfister’s “Perils of Parallel”
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009My good friend Greg Pfister is running an excellent blog about computer architecture called Perils of Parallel. Greg describes it as: A blog about multicore, cloud computing, accelerators, Virtual Worlds, and likely other topics, loosely driven by the effective end of Moore’s Law. Greg is well known as a leading authority on cluster-based architectures, but […]
Playing with the band
Monday, April 20th, 2009We don’t get many recordings of Rock City Band, and as the substitute bass player I only play occasionally anyway. Last month we did record of one of our club gigs, with me sitting in on a few songs. For all you fans out there, a short mp3 clip is now up on the Arcane […]
Sam Ruby on HTML Reunification
Thursday, April 16th, 2009Sam Ruby, recently appointed as co-chair of the W3C HTML Working Group, is starting to explore directions for unifying HTML 5 and XHTML. For anyone who cares about Web technology or HTML, Sam’s posting is highly recommended. There’s also a very interesting discussion going on in the comments section.
40 Years of Internet RFCs
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Steve Crocker has a nice piece in yesterday’s New York Times reflecting on 40 years of Internet RFCs.Â
Is Microsoft positioning Oslo as an XML competitor?
Monday, March 23rd, 2009James Clark, one of the co-inventors of XML, has an interesting blog posting on his week spent working with the Oslo team at Microsoft.Â
A great talk on World War II Codebreaking
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009Bletchley Park was the estate where Alan Turing and an amazing team of codebreakers cracked several key World War II German ciphers, and where they built the world’s first programmable electronic digital computers. Bletchley is falling into disrepair, and there are ongoing efforts to raise funds to save it. While rummaging around following links about […]
Remembering Wallace Stegner
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009A few weeks ago the New York Times published a nice rememberance of one of my favorite American authors, Wallace Stegner. Angle of Repose is probably his most famous work, and it won the Pulitzer Prize, but many of his smaller books including Remembering Laughter and Crossing to Safety, are beautfully written too.
Copyrights and comments
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009After this blog went live I received a few comments on the copyright policy, and in particular on the fact that copyright on any comments that you post is transferred to me. Â
Programming languages compared
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009I suspect it’s very well known, but I hadn’t noticed this programming language comparison before — the JavaScript example is cute.
CSS Animation in the Apple Safari Browser
Monday, March 9th, 2009Apple is supporting CSS Animations in Safari for both desktop and the iPhone. Follow that link using the new Safari 4 Beta and you can try out some of the effects, including <div>s that fade out or spin around when you click them. The extension properties have names like “-webkit-transition” and so are specific to […]
If all the Web were Flash
Sunday, February 15th, 2009Long ago, I got a degree in physics, and one of the things physicists do is to ask “what would happen if you took xxxxx to the extreme limiting case?” For example, what would happen if the mass of your car were infinite, or if the size of the electron was arbitrarily small? So, a […]
Rock City Band…rocks!
Saturday, February 14th, 2009Congratulations to my friends in Rock City Band and their fantastic new vocalist Brenda White, who blew the roof off the Haluwa Restaurant in Nashua, NH last night! Thanks too for having me sit in on bass for a few songs. If you live north of Boston, check them out (schedule).
The Self-Describing Web
Sunday, February 8th, 2009The Self-Describing Web was published yesterday as an official W3C TAG finding. I am the editor, which means I did almost all of the writing, and I was among the TAG members who contributed significantly to the debate about the content. After two years of work, many drafts, and lots of interesting discussion, it feels […]
New Job at IBM
Monday, February 2nd, 2009As of today, I have a new job, working in the Emerging Technologies area of IBM’s Software Group. I’ve really enjoyed my time in IBM Research, but it’s time to move on. I will be focusing especially on Web-based client technologies. More details to follow (as I figure them out).
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