Monthly Archives: May 2003

Top Five Computing Pioneers

by Johannes Brodwall Posted on May 31, 2003

Watched a show about Ada Lovelace today, and I thought about all the great names we should remember better. It would be so cool to have posters of these. I am just including dead ones. It feels kinda creepy to have living heroes.

  • Ada Lovelace (why do great mathematicians die young?)
  • Alan Turing (of course)
  • Edger Dijkstra (pioneered software and computer science as a discipline)
  • Grace Murray Hopper (championing accessible program writing)
  • Kristen Nygaard (as far as I know, he was one of the first people to be concerned about the impact of computing upon society)

 

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Bush ‘not mad’ at France

by Johannes Brodwall Posted on May 30, 2003

Bush ‘not mad’ at France

[via CNN]

“I’m going to remind him, like I’m going to remind a lot of people, that we can do a heck of a lot more together than we can arguing with each other,” [Bush] said.”

 

ITYM, “I can do heck of a lot more on of what I want if you stop hasslin’ me”, Dubya.

 

Dubya might be “not mad” at France, but I sure hope France is still mad at him. I thought we were done with autocrats after WW II.

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welcome spammers

by Johannes Brodwall Posted on May 24, 2003

welcome spammers Dear Spam Robot: I don’t have much time to read emails, and I especially don’t have much time to read unsolicited commercial emails. But I have decided to make an exception. If you would like to send me unsolicited commercial emails, then I agree to read them on the condition that you promise to pay me $500, and subject to the additional conditions mentioned below. You can accept this offer by sending unsolicited commercial email to me at mailto:make-my-day-q2wxe4q1@pobox.com. In accepting this offer, you also agree (1) to be subject to the laws of California for the purpose of enforcing our contract, (2) to pay any costs, including attorney fees, incurred in enforcing our contract, (3) to pay your obligation under this agreement within 10 days of sending the email, by mailing a check to me at the address referenced in the Contact section of this site, and (4) to accept service and costs associated with any bill collector that I hire to help collect obligations owed me under this contract. Good luck with your business.


 

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rOOts 2003

by Johannes Brodwall Posted on May 8, 2003

I went to the rOOts 2003 conference this year. As always, it was a great convention. ROOTS draws a fairly small, yet advanced audience. A recurring theme this year seems to be agile development. It also seems like all the speakers concluded with the fact that “everything was better in the good old days” (more or less). This seems to be a sign of the times, and was also reflected in Alan Kay’s keynote at the O’Reilly Emercing Technology conference.


I will blog a transcript from some of the speakers at day one, as soon as I clean it up. Stay tuned.

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