http://www.advogato.org/person/water/ Advogato blog for water en-us mod_virgule Sun, 19 May 2013 05:29:14 GMT Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:06:24 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/water/diary.html?start=18 http://feeds.delicious.com/rss/water451 500 Internal Server Error Tue, 5 Aug 2008 21:05:17 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/water/diary.html?start=17 http://www.electraflyer.com/ An electric-propulsion refit kit for powered gliders (or will it be a product?). Fri, 1 Aug 2008 20:03:48 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/water/diary.html?start=16 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html Measured in terms of depravity, insularity and traffic-driven turnover, the culture of /b/ has little precedent. /b/ reads like the inside of a high-school bathroom stall, or an obscene telephone party line, or a blog with no posts and all comments filled with slang that you are too old to understand. Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:04:02 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/water/diary.html?start=15 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7536918.stm Academics have compiled a list of the most ancient gags and the oldest, harking back to 1900BC, is a Sumerian proverb from what is now southern Iraq. Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:05:31 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/water/diary.html?start=14 http://www.sdtimes.com/MICROSOFT_S_PLANS_FOR_POST_WINDOWS_OS_REVEALED/About_CLOUDCOMPUTING_and_MOBILEDEVELOPMENT_and_NET_and_SOASAAS_and_SOFTWAREDEVELOPMENT_and_WINDOWS_and_MICROSOFT/32627 Midori, a speculative incubated software project, tries to expand on their Singularity OS project for more network-connected and potentially commercial prospects. Asynchronous promise-based (and capability-based?) security and concurrency are alluded to. Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:04:17 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/water/diary.html?start=13 http://www.littleb.org/ The little b project is an effort to provide an open source language which allows scientists to build mathematical models of complex systems. The initial focus is systems biology. The goal is to stimulate widespread sharing and reuse of models. Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:04:17 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/water/diary.html?start=12 http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~ejones/writing/systemsresearch.html This talk is a polemic that distills the pessimistic side of my feelings about systems research these days. I won't talk much about the optimistic side, since lots of others can do that for me; everyone's excited about the computer industry. I may therefo Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:04:17 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/water/diary.html?start=11 http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/Home.html The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use. Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:04:17 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/water/diary.html?start=10 http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content A story from the Laundry series, posted online for free as part of Tor's online efforts. Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:04:17 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/water/diary.html?start=9 http://stephencelis.com/projects/timeframe Allows selecting a time range easily in AJAX/DHTML applications.