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Sunday, September 9, 2007

Richard Stallman in Berkeley on Sept. 12

StallmanSadly, I'm not sure I can make this as I've just come to know about it. But MacArthur Genius and personal hero Richard Stallman is going to be speaking at UCB next week.

This will be thought provoking for sure. If you don't know all about Stallman (or rms) go read the the excellent wikipedia article on him.

One thing missing from the wikipedia article was that he had to hire someone to type for him because emacs (which he created) gave him severe repetitive stress injury. (Emacs is famous for "chorded" commands that wrap your fingers into pretzels.) Or maybe this was just MIT legend.

Saturday, August 4, 2007

O’Reilly and Battelle on Hadoop

Doug Cutting's presence at Yahoo is noticed and celebrated by O'Reilly and Battelle. I'm pretty proud that the good folks of Yahoo Search (and especially Raymie) made this happen. Congrats guys.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Cool word of the day: Idearrhea

Someone just intro'd me to the word, idearrhea - idea/rrhea, i.e. diarrhea of ideas. The word doesn't have much takeup yet, though there is an www.idearrhea.com with some really funny cat/kitten photos.