Archive for November, 2007

Anecdotage.

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

If you haven’t read The Feud in this Tuesday’s New York Times “Science Times” section, do have a look. It’s worth it just for the unintentionally self-damning quotes from the two heart surgeons involved, Dr. Denton A. Cooley (now 87) and Dr. Michael E. DeBakey (now 99), who have apparently been engaged in a [...]

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Want to help fix the roof?

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

Last July, at OSCON in Portland, Oregon, I put a whiteboard in the main conference hallway (with help from the indefatigable Vee McMillen), and wrote
Call For Software: Tools We Wish We Had
across the top, dividing the rest of the board into a grid of blank cells. Our hope was to get an ad hoc [...]

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Thanks for clarifying, Orbitz.

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

“This flight starts and ends at different airports.”
Well, that’s reassuring…

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