iamcal.com Since May 2000

broog is excellent - his review of the owen and ben show is spot on. and it turns out i know the man behind the monster :)

shopping list: bed, pillows, sheets, towels, alarm clock, bath mat, uk power adaptor, hangers, glasses, plates, cutlery, wooden spatula, stool, frying pan. new apartment is great, but somewhat lacking the essentials.

george schlossnagle writes about php and scaling in response to the rather crazy friendster/joyce/php/jsp stuff going on right now.

a nice photo from back in february at etcon. who were the people in the front? stew? neb? helen?

ell found this excellent site (parodied here) which puports to allow you to talk to geek girls for $3 a minute. It's kinda tempting to give it a try next time i need some unix sysadmin assistance, though i suspect the girls might be less geeky than they claim :)

i was pointed at this stupidly good voice synthesis demo. the british, especially, rocks.

colondee got featured on some bbc program and has enjoyed and influx of traffic (and retarded emails :/). to celebrate i've actually added some features to it. rock

i'm also toying with the idea of adding features to this blog/journal system since it's supposed to be my tech playground. hmmm.

a very nice explanation of continuations and saving state: say you're in the kitchen in front of the refrigerator, thinking about a sandwitch. you take a continuation right there and stick it in your pocket. then you get some turkey and bread out of the refrigerator and make yourself a sandwitch, which is now sitting on the counter. you invoke the continuation in your pocket, and you find yourself standing in front of the refrigerator again, thinking about a sandwitch. but fortunately, there's a sandwitch on the counter, and all the materials used to make it are gone. so you eat it. :-) by luke palmer (i'm turning a bit fanboyish)

i'm going on a short holiday to edmonton in a week and a half - i seem to fly more than i drive nowadays. i'll finally get to meet the elusive lea, though i doubt peter will be around.