Monthly Archives: February 2006

Phil Wind­ley attended a talk by Alan Kay (of PARC and Smalltalk fame) wherein Alan asked the ques­tion Is Com­puter Sci­ence as Oxy­moron? Tags: Alan Kay PARC Smalltalk Com­puter Science

CRW 0001 Orig­i­nally uploaded by tom­masz. It’s been a very warm win­ter, but we’ve got­ten some snow here and there. Last night gave us a cou­ple of inches of light, pow­dery lake effect snow. Tags: Rochester, win­ter, photo

The M4 Mes­sage Break­ing Project is using dis­trib­uted com­put­ing to break four Enigma Machine-encoded mes­sages from 1942. You can down­load a client and help with the effort. So far, one mes­sage has been suc­cess­fully decoded. In case you don’t know, … Read More →

NASA’s got an Apollo 11 Image Library avail­able for brows­ing. Some­where I have some prints from the orig­i­nal Has­sel­blad neg­a­tives, but these are eas­ier to deal with. Amaz­ing qual­ity and amaz­ing sub­ject mat­ter. Tags: NASA Apollo 11 moon

CRW 0009 Orig­i­nally uploaded by tom­masz. Also over at Iola, these sad con­crete benches are suf­fer­ing from neglect. Tags: Rochester Iola photo

CRW 0005 Orig­i­nally uploaded by tom­masz. This build­ing over in the Iola com­plex looks like it didn’t han­dle that recent wind­storm all that well. The ply­wood they used is thin and flex­i­ble; I’m sur­prised it stays on at all. As … Read More →