Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

HNYiP!

if youHadAGreatYear(2000) then
   wishln('May your 2001 be even better than 2000!');
else
   wishln('May your 2001 be much better than 2000!');

Lemieux, Jagr reach milestones

Lemieux, Jagr reach milestones -- "Mario Lemieux had three assists and a goal in Pittsburgh's 5-3 win over Ottawa on Saturday to become the 10th NHL player with 1,500 points, and teammate Jaromir Jagr scored twice to reach 1,000 points."

This is getting scary...

Comrie signs 3-year contract with Oilers

Comrie signs 3-year contract with Oilers

There were a lot of teams coveting Mike Comrie, a local Edmonton product, including former Oiler Boss Glen Sather, GM of the New York Rangers.

Is W a robot?

Bush a robot?

RE: Pliant – next generation language

I still haven't managed to download the latest Pliant release. I guess that's the penalty for finding things on Slashdot.

Update @ 6:15 PM:

I was finally able to get the (Win32) pliant release 53 distribution downloaded. If you're having problems getting it from the site, e-mail me and I'll send it to you.

It's doing its precompiling now. Oh, it finished as I wrote that.

Pliant – next generation language

Pliant, a new programming language/framework, apparently has a built-in hierarchical database, and the database is highly integrated with the built-in web server.

I just HAVE to check this out.

Slashdot suggests Pliant is an OS, and it does appear to run on top of the Linux kernel without the need for a full Linux distro (I think they're as confused as I am), but it also runs on Windows, BSD and OS/2.

So it seems that the "OS" is called "FullPliant", which is Linux Kernel + Pliant, and none of the standard Linux Distro stuff to muddy the waters. Pliant, the language/environment/framework, runs on POSIX environments (OS/2 is POSIX compliant with EMX), Linux and Win32.

I've been reading about Pliant since I first saw mention of it. It sounds really cool, I look forward to getting it running here so I can try it. The creator of Pliant started a thread on Advogato about his software.

On his website, he says he was worked on this software for 15 years!

I've been reading the comments on Slashdot. Typical stuff, mostly, but a few good nuggets. Some people say "why waste 15 years on this when you could have worked on XYZ" and others say "It's a good thing Linus didn't follow that advice!"

I hadn't read this (16 year old!) quote before, but boy is it relevant, true, powerful and scarey all in one.

"The greatest danger to good computer science
  research today may be excessive relevance . . .
  [C]ommercial pressure . . . will divert the
  attention of the best thinkers from real
  innovation to exploitation of the current fad,
  from prospecting to mining a known lode"
  -- Dennis Ritchie
  Communications of the ACM, August, 1984

MacCPU cafe: Newer TECH has closed the doors

MacCPU café: Newer TECH has closed the doors

What a totally depressing article.

Oni fini

I completed the Oni Demo today. Addicting, but I'm not sure I even liked it. Even by the time I finished the last scene, I didn't really feel comfortable with the moves the character was performing... and I hate using a keyboard for movement.

Unless you have a really really fast computer, don't bother. With my 400MHz PowerBook G3, the only way I could get adequate performance was to turn the detail, resolution and colour bit-depth to minimum. Even at that setting, the game looked great, but not close to as nice as on the 450MHz G4 Cube at CompuSmart.

Even after I updated the video drivers on my 600MHz PIII W2K box I couldn't get Oni to run on it. Typical.

Update: Oh darn. James found a way to get more levels into Oni. Not gonna do it. Wouldn't be prudent.

Slower Than Its Predecessor: Pentium 4

NYTimes: Slower Than Its Predecessor: Pentium 4

Finally a big pub covers this!

Bush isn’t Microsoft’s white knight

Interactive Week: Bush isn't Microsoft's white knight