todbot blog » misc http://todbot.com/blog Random experiments, circuits, code, rapid prototyping, sometimes things to buy, and the odd tune by Tod E. Kurt. Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:06:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Yes yes, okay, I admit it. http://todbot.com/blog/2004/12/15/yes-yes-okay-i-admit-it/ http://todbot.com/blog/2004/12/15/yes-yes-okay-i-admit-it/#comments Wed, 15 Dec 2004 23:41:00 +0000 todbot http://todbot.com/blog/archives/2004/12/15/yes-yes-okay-i-admit-it/ When I was a wee lad, I bought the Xanadu sountrack. After seeing the movie of course. I think I saw it a few times in the theaters actually. Big Olivia Newton-John crush at the age of 12.

Looks like others are similarly scarred: Xanadu Preservation Society

]]> http://todbot.com/blog/2004/12/15/yes-yes-okay-i-admit-it/feed/ 0 Stephenson Bounced off the Singularity http://todbot.com/blog/2004/08/16/stephenson-bounced-off-the-singularity/ http://todbot.com/blog/2004/08/16/stephenson-bounced-off-the-singularity/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2004 21:28:00 +0000 todbot http://todbot.com/blog/archives/2004/08/16/stephenson-bounced-off-the-singularity/ There was some talk yesterday on Slashdot about how SF authors are having trouble predicting past the Singularity. And how it all started happening in the ’90s, right as cyberpunk was losing it’s luster.

For me this puts into perspective the trajectory of topics that one of my favorite authors, Neal Stephenson, has been on. He’s bounced off the Singularity and is steadily going back in time. He’s sorta stated as much. Expect his next trilogy to be set in Sumerian times.

I think mirrorshades and leather jackets will always be cool. And cybernetic implants are [...]]]> http://todbot.com/blog/2004/08/16/stephenson-bounced-off-the-singularity/feed/ 0 Fun with letters, sez ben http://todbot.com/blog/2004/04/09/fun-with-letters-sez-ben/ http://todbot.com/blog/2004/04/09/fun-with-letters-sez-ben/#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2004 21:02:00 +0000 todbot http://todbot.com/blog/archives/2004/04/09/fun-with-letters-sez-ben/ http://letterjames.de/

]]> http://todbot.com/blog/2004/04/09/fun-with-letters-sez-ben/feed/ 0 JavaRunner http://todbot.com/blog/2004/02/24/javarunner/ http://todbot.com/blog/2004/02/24/javarunner/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2004 23:53:00 +0000 todbot http://todbot.com/blog/archives/2004/02/24/javarunner/ “Describe in single words, only the good things that come into your mind about: your search engine.” “My search engine? Let me tell you about my search engine. BLAM!!”

“It’s too bad she won’t click. But then again, who does?”

I’ve written Java you people wouldn’t believe. Attack applets on Firefox off the shoulder of Andreesen. C++ beams glittering off the JNI gate. All that code will be lost, Like posts to slashdot. Time to debug.

]]> http://todbot.com/blog/2004/02/24/javarunner/feed/ 0 If porn drives technology… http://todbot.com/blog/2004/02/10/if-porn-drives-technology/ http://todbot.com/blog/2004/02/10/if-porn-drives-technology/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2004 23:26:00 +0000 todbot http://todbot.com/blog/archives/2004/02/10/if-porn-drives-technology/ …social software is driven by social outcasts.

]]> http://todbot.com/blog/2004/02/10/if-porn-drives-technology/feed/ 0 Rant by an old programmer http://todbot.com/blog/2004/02/10/rant-by-an-old-programmer/ http://todbot.com/blog/2004/02/10/rant-by-an-old-programmer/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:00:00 +0000 todbot http://todbot.com/blog/archives/2004/02/10/rant-by-an-old-programmer/ (as I attend Etech04, I realize that this group is fairly free of the buzzword crap that’s in the ‘real’ software engineering space. The following is a rant by a hypothetical old programmer. Not me of course, some of my best friends write SOAP-based web services in Java)

“J2EE, WSDL, SOAP, .NET : je-zus. Stop following the herd for once and actually think a little about the latest fad-standard you’re drooling over. Most likely it sucks and you’re just too clueless to realize it.”

“Repeat after me nitwit: ‘SOAP is just RPC. SOAP is just RPC.’ You say it’s not? Show me.”

“‘Debugging SOAP transactions’!!! [...]]]> http://todbot.com/blog/2004/02/10/rant-by-an-old-programmer/feed/ 0