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Scenes from a sci-fi convention 2: "Who let the mundane in?"

On Friday night, after helping Eric Raymond score some peanut butter cookies, a guy who looked sort of familiar approached…

21 years ago

Scenes from a sci-fi convention 1: I discover ESR’s weakness

I decided to bike over to the Royal York last night (only non-locals refer to it as the Fairmont Royal…

21 years ago

"Captain, sensors are picking up geek humour, and readings are off the scale."

Here's a funny post from Slashdot (it happens sometimes) on the whole SCO vs. IBM debate over Linux, framed in…

21 years ago

Steve Mann on News.com

News.com has put Steve Mann on their front page! Cool! They're running a Declan "Politech" McCullagh article called Cyborgs unite!…

21 years ago

Deep in the heart of cafe coolness

As I type this, I'm sitting at a table at the Lettieri Cafe at the corner of Queen and Spadina,…

21 years ago

SCO silliness

If you're a geek who's been following the silliness about SCO's claims about Linux, you'll love We Love the SCO…

21 years ago

The boss’ cubicle: a panorama

Boss Ross let me take a panorama of his cubicle while I was waiting for him to finish an online…

21 years ago

A sign that either extreme programming has either gone mainstream or "jumped the shark"

Wired magazine's September 2003 issue has an article on Extreme Programming called The New X-Men. A photo from the Extreme…

21 years ago

They’re trying to make Astroboy!

From the Japan Times:Japanese researchers in robot technology are advocating a grand project, under which the government would spend 50…

21 years ago

ASP.NET programmers — what’s your programming language of choice?

Or, more accurately, what's the programming language mandated by your company: Visual Basic .NET or C#? And what's the size…

21 years ago