Month: May 2004

Their platform might be completely vacuous, but if there is one thing they have made clear, it is that Conservative Party of Canada is going to fight.

A number of companies are offering an online DVD rental service in Canada, all of which seem to offer a better deal than the usual guys.

Peter Norvig compares Lisp to Python, Java, and itself in 1991.

After reading this post on lispmeister that links to an article about the pains of C++ written by the creator of, among other things, EROS, the Extremely Reliable Operating System, I got curious about the state of the art in operating systems. While EROS appears to have been abandoned, I came across the L4 microkernel, which also seems pretty neat.

The contrarian in me tells me that this story that claims that the real estate bubble can’t possibly burst is a sign that the real estate bubble is about to burst.

Paul Graham’s collection of essays, Hackers & Painters, is due out on May 12.

What? I’m sure every American president has used an unsuspecting person as a rag at one time or another.

Free, after rebate. I wonder if there will ever be a Canadian version.

You’d think I’d have discovered Planet Lisp before now.