Hopeful Signs
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A friend who emigrated from New York to Canada five years ago, seeing the
handwriting on the wall — or at least not wanting to take any chances (he
had rel...
Notes on the Liquid Glass Tsunami
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Following my little saga with the iPad OS beta, I upgraded a few of my
devices, including one of my Macs, and… It’s even worse than I thought.
First of a...
CodeSOD: Functionally, a Date
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Dates are messy things, full of complicated edge cases and surprising ways
for our assumptions to fail. They lack the pure mathematical beauty of
other d...
Last post!
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This blog is over. It was created to promote our books. That was many years
ago.
In the future you can find Tom on:
- Tom's quarterly column in ACM/Q...
Comic for March 12, 2023
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Dilbert readers - Please visit Dilbert.com to read this feature. Due to
changes with our feeds, we are now making this RSS feed a link to
Dilbert.com.
Apolitical is the worst kind of politics
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Apolitical is the worst kind of politics:
From technocrats to garden variety “independents” who reject partisan
politics, the greatest danger to society l...
How to Hack an Election Without Really Trying
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Unraveling the NSA "Russian Election Hacking" story.
This Monday, *The Intercept* broke the story of a leaked classified NSA
report [pdf link] on an email...
Being an adult is difficult
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It is frequently very difficult for me to say "no" to people. This week I
said "no" twice in situations where it would have been easy to say "yes"
and the...
Goodbye, DreamHost
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I can’t believe that I’m canceling my DreamHost account, just one month shy
of my 10 year anniversary with them. I first signed up for my DreamHost
account...
DenyHosts Synchronization Mode
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I recently deployed a new server to host this and my other websites.
Because this is a public facing server, part of this deployment includes
securing the ...
Michelle Rhee comes to Oakland
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[The below is a guest post written by Joanna Bujes, and edited (for markup)
by Ravi] Rhee’s Framing of the Debate on Education On the evening of
February 7...
Announcement: SundayArts Becomes NYC-ARTS
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SundayArts, the Tri-State Area’s Premier Arts Showcase, to Relaunch in
Primetime as NYC-ARTS Beginning Thursday, February 2 at 8 p.m. on THIRTEEN
Newly exp...
Moving
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No, I'm not moving, but this blog is. It's not that there's anything wrong
with Blogger. In fact, I like Blogger. But I decided that I wanted to have
my bl...