I got this “cold call” email today: Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:19:09 -0700 From: Dennis R… To: Michael Radwin <michael@…> Subject: Could you/your family be interested in moving to Seattle area to do Browser and/or algorithm work for AMAZON? Hello Michael, I know this is out of the blue. No, we’ve never communicated before, […]
/usr/games/yfortune
If you’re a Unix geek, you know about /usr/games/fortune. If you know much about Yahoo!, you know that we like to name our software things that start with “y”. For example, my Making the Case for PHP at Yahoo! talk mentions our legacy yScript language. Today, a rather clever co-worker of mine suggested a list […]
7500 Songs
Ariella surprised me with a wonderful present this week. Now I’ve gotta get a Mac, too.
Making Love Out of Nothing At All
We went to see Air Supply last night with Rachel and Dan. What a trip!
Nullsoft WASTE on Linux?
Nullsoft (the Winamp people) today released WASTE, a secure, mesh-network IM/chat/file-transfer system. Looks kinda cool. They even GPL’d the code. WASTE is initially available on the following platforms: Windows FreeBSD MacOS X Notice a particularly popular operating system missing from that list? No, I’m not talking about Solaris.
Bill Nye at UCLA on Sunday
Bill Nye the Science Guy will be speaking at UCLA on Sunday June 1st at 3pm in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom.
BusinessWeek on Yahoo!
The cover story of the June 2, 2003 edition of BusinessWeek is entitled Yahoo! Act Two. As an insider, the article seems pretty accurate to me. It does a pretty good job explaining what’s changed about the corporate culture since Semel came on board. Our stock price is up almost 70% since the day he […]
Damned if you, damned if you don’t
I had a chuckle when I read these two bullet points in the Mozilla Firebird 0.6 Known Issues release notes: Form auto-complete is still an unstable feature and may lead to crashes. Followed immediately by: Disabling of form auto-completion is not working. Makes me wonder why I’d ever consider using something other than the World’s […]
Moving from Pine to PC-Pine
I hate email almost as much as I hate the web. I’ve found that I’m using my Windows 2000 laptop a lot these days, but I’m still doing my email on my 4.5-year-old FreeBSD machine (running a vintage 2.2.7 kernel, complete with the a.out runtime linker bug). Switching back and forth between the two has […]
Economic cost of the support@microsoft.com virus
Those wacky virus people have done it again. The big@boss.com virus (W32.Sobig.A@mm) has mutated into the support@microsoft.com virus (W32.Sobig.B@mm). Ariella and I were chatting about this over lunch. She suggested that if the government simply bought the rights to distribute Norton Antivirus and legislated that it be installed on all computers, we could do the […]