Year: 2003

A funny one about a kitty litter box. “Curiosity kills the cat”. (And while on the topics of cats, here’s some cat haiku)

I have blogged about 5 days last month — my lowest since June 2000. Guess it shows that the combination of consulting and family life cures even the most determined Web addicts. I’m not sure when life will return to normal. Please excuse the infrequent updates until then.

The Economist on how copyrights aren’t really helping creativity, which is what they were intended to do in the first place. via andersja

Letters to the Editor. Except that they’re a marketing campaign. By the President, no less. via Scripting News

Smarter spam via Scripting News

Some (light?) reading on physics: Motion Mountain — a rather large and comprehensive physics book for download. And some links on Quantum Field Theory.

The first time Bertie meets Jeeves. via RobotWisdom

US is the biggest threat to world peace?! A Time survey. via kuro5hin

John Ashmead offers a view of quantum mechanics in which the collapse of the wave function can be done away with.

Given that the world is emphatically quantum mechanical, there should be no separate domain of competence for classical physics. All classical results should ultimately be explicated in quantum terms.

I was long hoping this was the case.

Now IBM offers supercomputing on demand. Pricing is unclear, but Big Blue is clearly positioning itself as the computer utility house of the 21st century.