Monthly Archives: April 2005

I’m evaluating blogging apps that work with the RSS reader on my Mac. This is ecto.

My daughter Alanna is creating a new template for this weblog, expect to see it this weekend. I’m going to switch to Blogger’s commenting system since I’ve lost the login information for my current system and I can’t change anything. … Read More →

On the other hand, here’s a software patent alternative from Stephen Lindholm at the Stanford Law School.

The only thing unique about this Microsoft patent on emergency services data access is that it’s for use by the emergency services. One more reason to eliminate software patents.

Students at Simon’s Rock College in Massachsetts ran the original Turing Test as described by Alan Turing in 1950. They used a program called A.L.I.C.E. to act as one end of an interactive conversation in which the participants were supposed … Read More →

There are better ways to make a political point than a firebombing spree. The fact that he’s a student is pretty much immaterial. Apparently he learned far more about physics than he did on how to act in a civlized … Read More →

Street racing is dangerous. It’s even more so when you race in an SUV, which doesn’t handle, turn or stop anywhere near as well as a car, especilly at 100 mph.

Psychologist John Gottman applies math to relationships. We were able to derive a set of nonlinear difference equations for marital interaction as well as physiology and perception. These equations provided parameters, that allowed us to predict, with over 90 percent … Read More →