Ken's Meme Deflector

Peddling the same prosaic resources you can get from a simple Google search

Monday, May 31, 2004

Put'em up

Their platform might be completely vacuous, but if there is one thing they have made clear, it is that Conservative Party of Canada is going to fight.

Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Online DVD Rental

A number of companies are offering an online DVD rental service in Canada, all of which seem to offer a better deal than the usual guys.

Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Lisp versus Python, Java, and Itself

Peter Norvig compares Lisp to Python, Java, and itself in 1991.

Monday, May 17, 2004

Adventures in Operating Systems

After reading this post on lispmeister that links to an article about the pains of C++ written by the creator of, among other things, EROS, the Extremely Reliable Operating System, I got curious about the state of the art in operating systems. While EROS appears to have been abandoned, I came across the L4 microkernel, which also seems pretty neat.

Monday, May 10, 2004

Hearing Voices

The contrarian in me tells me that this story that claims that the real estate bubble can't possibly burst is a sign that the real estate bubble is about to burst.

Friday, May 07, 2004

Hackers & Painters

Paul Graham's collection of essays, Hackers & Painters, is due out on May 12.

Dubbya on Parade

What? I'm sure every American president has used an unsuspecting person as a rag at one time or another.

Now that's my kind of price

Free, after rebate. I wonder if there will ever be a Canadian version.

All Blogs Lisp

You'd think I'd have discovered Planet Lisp before now.