I said I was going to post notes about the Friday dinner at Votes, Bits, & Bytes, so here they are. I waited far too long to write these. Most of my memories about the conversations and what I wanted to record are gone. Oh, well. I went to dinner as part of Hoder’s table. [...]
One of my colleagues showed me this weblog maintained by the first female sports writer to enter the locker room of a professional men’s sports team. Robin Herman happens to be one of my Harvard colleagues.
I’ve been playing with Wikipedia a bit over the last few days and have noticed problems with many of the terms in the articles that should link elsewhere. One problem related to the wiki software is that it’s easy to create a link around words without actually having to find out if there’s a Wikipedia [...]
When I was playing around in AltaVista, I noticed some posts from the scratchpad in my search results that had a variety of old taglines on them. Google sometimes has taglines that are a few days old, but usually all of the posts have the same taglines and they change each time Google spiders this [...]