Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
01apr2007
Mutable variables eliminated from .NET, I so wish that was true. :-) Yay!
WebKit Shutting Down, “that’s why I am pleased to announce that WebKit will be discontinued in favor of Trident, the engine inside Windows Internet Explorer. Like OpenDarwin before us, we will be shutting down. You may wonder how we can use Trident in Mac OS X browsers like Safari. Fortunately, on Intel-based Macs, there is a solution: running IE under Parallels, and using Mozilla’s XPCOM to bridge the gap. This means we will discontinue the WebKit Objective-C API in favor of a COM API.” Yay!
Leave the ocean’s roar in the turquoise shell
Leave the widower in his private hell
Leave the liberty in that broken bell today
— Bright Eyes, I Must Belong Somewhere
Urgo’s 2007 list of April Fools’ Day Jokes on Websites, you should find everything else there. Yay!
Viewstamped Replication for Highly Available Systems, by Brian Masao Oki. “This dissertation presents viewstamped replication, a new algorithm for the implementation of highly available computer services that continue to be usable in spite of node crashes and network partitions.”
The Cloud, Hollywood burning.
The Curious Rotational Memory of the Electron, Part 1, “There’s a curious and bizarre fact about the universe that is introduced in physics courses without anyone stopping to point out just how curious and bizarre it is.”
Bundestrojaner in ELSTER-Software entdeckt, “Untersuchungen des Chaos Computer Clubs ergaben, dass der Bundestrojaner über die aktuelle Version der Elster-Software verbreitet wird.” Yay!
Little soldier, little insect, you know war it has no heart
It will kill you in the sunshine or happily in the dark
Where kindness is a card game or a bent-up cigarette
In the trenches, in the hard rain, with a bullet and
— Bright Eyes, No One Would Riot For Less
Plans for HTML6, it’s based on OOXML! Yay!
Gmail Paper will print all your mail and post it to you. Yay!