This is probably no big deal to anyone, but the blog has moved to a new server. Whee!

“The locking on this application is not so much pessimistic as clinically depressed.” – me

“Hovercraft are just as happy hovering over the surface of land as of water. The authorities forbid their use on roads. And when you appreciate that they have no brakes, tend to slither off the camber down into the gutter and are deflected sideways by the slightest breeze, you can see that the authorities have made a wise move

“The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether or not a submarine can swim.” – Edsger Dijkstra

The trailer for the sequel to Tron looks awesome.

And this gives me an opportunity to vent one of my pet peeves about the original Tron.

In Tron, you have (in essence) a battle between three programmers: Flynn (hero), Bradley (hero), and Dillinger (villain). Now, what actual programs have these three delivered, per the movie?

Tony [Comstock] has described Google as “lazy” for various sins: The sex-negative algorithm changes, considering [penis] a less naughty word than [clitoris], and so forth. And he has a good point.

But, really, aren’t we the lazy ones?

Just like Homo Sapiens has trouble imagining geological time, Homo Internetica has trouble imagining time periods more than a couple

That which only exists on one disk, you do not truly possess

Recently, the very cool video side Vimeo announced that they would no longer be allowing videos which were just samples of the gameplay of video games. Needless to say, howling and gnashing of teeth followed. I don’t have a strong opinion on it either way (except

A friend of mine once bought a $200 beater car. On the way to a very, very important job interview, this $200 car broke down on the freeway. My friend blamed this on “bad luck.”

Needless to say, this was not truly bad luck.

A server failing is not “bad luck.” Computers fail. All the time. Bad luck

If a service is available to the general public, it is not in “beta.” It has been deployed. Excusing problems by slapping a “beta” on it is simply immature.