I’m one of those seemingly few people who thought they had a real purpose for an iPad. I have a laptop and various old computers at home, but hate hauling my laptop around the apartment just to check email or look up something on wikipedia. So I splurged and bought one, which arrived Friday. While [...]
First days with an iPad
posted by vanessa on June 7th, 2010 under Uncategorized
BOFH
posted by vanessa on May 26th, 2005 under Uncategorized
Are you a Bastard Operator From Hell? The original bastard writes for the Register.
Cities In The Sea
posted by vanessa on May 10th, 2005 under Uncategorized
When I was a kid there was a lot of hype about human habitats on and under the sea. The sea was touted as the next frontier (space having already been conquered, symbolically at least, by the Apollo missions.) Decades later– off-shore drilling platforms notwithstanding–the oceans are still mostly a mystery and cities in the [...]
Agoric Open Systems
posted by vanessa on April 23rd, 2004 under Uncategorized
With the widespread current interest in loosely coordinated distributed computation and resource-sharing grids, I’m surprised that Miller and Drexler’s papers on agoric computing from 1988 (specifically: “Markets and Computation: Agoric Open Systems” and “Incentive Engineering for Computational Resource Management”) haven’t received much attention in these contexts. For my taste, Web Services and SOA architecture puts [...]
