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May 31st, 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.

Posted by Ken Dyck as Uncategorized at 7:58 PM EST

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May 26th, 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.

Posted by Ken Dyck as Uncategorized at 8:43 PM EST

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May 19th, 2004

Lisp versus Python, Java, and Itself

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

Posted by Ken Dyck as Uncategorized at 7:56 PM EST

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May 17th, 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.

Posted by Ken Dyck as Uncategorized at 8:55 PM EST

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May 10th, 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.

Posted by Ken Dyck as Uncategorized at 7:43 PM EST

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May 7th, 2004

Hackers & Painters

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

Posted by Ken Dyck as Uncategorized at 7:19 PM EST

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Dubbya on Parade

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

Posted by Ken Dyck as Uncategorized at 7:12 PM EST

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Now that’s my kind of price

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

Posted by Ken Dyck as Uncategorized at 7:00 PM EST

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All Blogs Lisp

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

Posted by Ken Dyck as Uncategorized at 6:58 PM EST

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