BTW, totally by coincidence, my old friend Adam Green, the dBASE guru, and CTO at Andover, retired rich from the software industry, is now taking classes at Harvard to learn how be scholarly about the history of science. His aim is to be the first software historian. Adam is uniquely qualified to do that. He […]

What Are the Chances?. A rapidly evolving set of computing tools allow mathematicians, engineers and insurance executives to understand the odds of catastrophe. By Seth Schiesel. [New York Times: Technology] but really, will it matter?

Jeremy Allaire: “After eight years with Allaire and Macromedia, I've decided to move on.” [Scripting News] Good 4 him, Macromedia virtually killed one of the best web editors there ever was, which was homesite.

Moral Authority. In his 1947 letter to the General Assembly of the United Nations Albert Einstein wrote of 'enhancing the moral authority of the UN' and portrayed the United Nations as a “transitional system toward the final goal, which is the establishment of a supranational authority”. Is the United Nations the depository of the moral […]

Stein Gives Bioinformatics Ten Years to Live. Lincoln Stein reflects on the role of bioinformatics in his keynote address at the O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference. [O'Reilly Network Articles] Here is a link to Lincoln's discussion. It was quite provocative. [A Man with a Ph.D. – Richard Gayle's Weblog] 10 years is a long time, a […]

The preliminary agenda for the Open Source in Government conference is up at www.egovos.org and free registration is open. We have over 125 sessions in security, health and Federal Enterprise Architecture. We have the White House, OMB, NSA and Europeans coming to speak, including all the major vendors and Open Source projects.

Total Information Awareness tchotchkes The Total Information Awareness program may have removed its ominous logo from its Web site — but you can still get your TIA-insignia T-shirts, teddy bears, mugs and thongs! Hurry, though, they're going fast (into detention)! [Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment] mmm toys, i want one. but i'll have to get […]

interesting. NY Times has recently published two articles regarding a rise in unbleeped words and sex during prime time. Does this have to do with consolidation in the telecomm industry as one article suggests or their trying to compete for young viewers with cable at the same time that eyeballs are dwindling. [Tech Law Advisor] […]

Remotely Counting Machines Behind A NAT Box [Slashdot] saw that a person was doing basically this at rubicon last year

Anyone else, especially the lawyer bloggers, going to SXSW this year? [Ernie the Attorney] I will be going, I'm no lawyer though, just an average joe academic.