Recent blog entries for whir

The complexity of stuff made out of atoms is limited by the nature of material things. If a thing is too baroque, it'll fall down. But if a thing is made of bits, it has no such intrinsic limit on its creation. Later understanding of it including its utility and any ability to maintain it will be limited. Conclusion - simplicity isn't arrived at naturally in the second realm.

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I've now one more Gmail invite to give away. First come, first serve at tmp4021@yahoo.com. Please send the name and the email address to which I should send it.

hmmm... cannot delete but can make empty

This was the above entry and to push it up on the stack I copied it into a new entry - a work-around.

Darn - no table tags; table.

Take this literally or as metaphor (like some Oblique Strategy), take this in Martha Stewart's voice. All new technology, and in this context I mean everything after solitary transistors, is oppressive (not by malice but out of incompetence). Put your new technology on wheels. Then when you move it you will feel fresh in the illusion of control.

Ran Polygraph against many flavors of cache since we talked last. Some bright cube neighbors.

Heard a pretty good rendering of Le sacre du printemps last night by the SLSO.

Been seeing an increasing number of headhunters face-to-face here recently. Two today and one Monday. Think maybe I should start answering, Why did you move to Saint Louis? with, I have a good friend in Memphis who's timezone-impaired.