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Feb 07
Frances Allen Wins Turing Award
This is an important event – first time a woman has won the Turing Award, the ACM’s award for achievement in computer science. The award has been given since 1966, and many women have contributed in that interval, so it’s about time.
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Jan 07
um…
…no offense — the iphone is really cool & all, but i was sort of hoping for some stuff to buy today from MacWorld. don’t they make software? where’s ilife? where’s iwork? leopard? weird to have no mention of it.
but the phone is great. pondering iTV still.
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Jan 07
life without IM
huh. i’ve accidentally been forgetting to turn on my IM client (adium) for the past few days, and have noticed that my productivity has been a lot higher (if not quite as social). i think i’m going to experiment with that some.
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Jan 07
CES & MacWorld
I think I’ll write some more about how I feel about Apple lately tonight if I can find some time, but as I watch the newsfeeds all come in from CES, I can’t help but feel like it’s sort of irrelevant. I mean, there’s a bunch of cool stuff there, but it just feels like a whole mess of it will be irrelevant after MacWorld tomorrow. That’s how large Jobs is towering over the industry. It just feels like everyone is guessing about what might be neat, in preparation for hearing it from Steve. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe Vista Media Edition will be huge. Maybe.
Some followup thoughts on my SOPA post
Feb 3, 23:21 › Travis: Man, SOPA and PIPA just drive me crazy. I am shocked Jan 11, 17:22 › John Stack: Have you considered #OPEN? Personally, it is as far Jan 11, 16:51 › Brad Feld: Fantastic John. I couldn't have said it better myself Jan 10, 15:34 › Robert Kaiser: "What I think we really need to figure out is how