The issue of Lisp is, I think, an empirical one. Back when GNOME made the move away from Sawfish for Metacity, at about the same time Sun came aboard, one of the wingnuts on Slashdot made a pejorative comment about the Sun programmers, questioning their abilities if they couldn’t handle the Lisp required to maintain …
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So in honor of Luis’ birthday, yesterday I closed a bug. And we’re not talking about something cheap and easy, like using the dupfinder to zap one away. No, this bug required me to actually apply a patch. (OK, it was a patch submitted by a user, but still….) Happy birthday, Luis. update 2/29: In …
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In my other blog I linked yesterday to an account written by Nat Cobb of his cross country Tour of Hope adventure. I promised Dano I’d run down the story I wrote last fall about Nat. Here it is.
“This thing is freakin’ sick!” Seems like there’s only one way to stop that boy:
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I’ve been following lately my friend Mark Boslough’s battles over RS 2477, an old federal law that is at the center of some pretty important land fights in the western United States. In Mark’s case, off-roaders with giant-tired four-wheel drive vehicles have claimed RS 2477 rights to drive their vehicles up a creek bed on …
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Kevin Drum pointed his browser yesterday evening at this article in the Observer and then helpfully shared the results with us: Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters.. A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The …