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IanWho’s bLog:
Oracle buys Siebel for $5.85 billion.
Google stock at $308.
eBay buys Skype for 2.6 billion plus.
Hey, it looks like someone found the magic money-printing machine from 1999 and started it up again! I’m sure this time it’s here for good!
I’ve already put in for a loan for my Ferrari and house on Lake Washington, I’d […]

So, did I ever mention how much I hate graffiti inside City Buses.
As if it wasn’t just a question of ugliness, I had my pants stained by one of those graffitis. it was really annoying. So to all those poopoos that think its cool to draw on the bus, I say, GET A LIFE; but I doubt you are […]

​​​​I’m sitting here at the final event of day one of CUTC 2005. I am
not sure about the presentations yet, I think my background of
involvement with CUSEC have got me to expect something else. CUTC seems
to be much less academic. Agreed some of the presentations where quite
interesting, but some other ones seems like a big […]

I was just convinced to use a version control system for my own documents.
Greg Wilson, from the University of Toronto explained how they have been using CVS
to manage student projects & assignments. This included
requirements of the work to be done, artifacts as well as the final
content.
One of the things he said that I found quite […]

For the next few days I will be attending CUSEC 2005 (Canadian Undergraduate Software Engineering Conference). I was an organizer for CUSEC 2004,
and although our event seemed to have been great, I simply did not
attend ANY of the presentations (OK, no, I attended one complete one,
and another two partial ones). I had to run around […]

I’m sitting in front of my computer (not such a good idea) trying to
study. Given that I really don’t want to study I add to my distraction
by putting my Walkman on radio and sticking the head phones in my ears.
The sound on AM is a bit scratchy, but for some reason it becomes
better in certain […]

I’ve always been fascinated by AI; so today when a friend of mine mentioned 20q.net
(although it seems its been around for a while) I jumped at it and had
to try it. It asks you to think of something, and asks you questions
about what it is that you are thinking about, until it guesses it.
Now at […]

So, I promised I will go to bed in 5 minutes, and yet I am still posting something here.
What’s
the deal with that? It’s the latest of me procrastinating. Yes,
procrastination, it’s horrible, and I do it all the time. But I found
some guidance in this article and you might be interested in reading it.
Structured Procrastination

“Groklaw has the story of Kodak v. Sun (mentioned on Slashdot already), which PJ calls ‘Exhibit A’ in the case against software patents. Her analysis of Kodak v. Sun, and the larger issue of software patents, is excellent. Bottom line: the software patent ‘cold war’ provides no benefits to anyone, and will inevitably make the […]

Java 1.5 is out.
On the what’s new list:

Java 1.5
C#

Metadata
Attributes (v1.0)

Generic Types
Generics (v2.0)

Autoboxing and Auto-Unboxing of Primitive Types
NO Primitives (v1.0)

It took so long for some of these things to make their way into Java, which is quite surprising. It makes me once more appreciate C# for how advanced it is. I don’t think anyone can say […]