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DTrace awards, DTrace for JavaScript

A big congratulations to Bryan and his team at Sun, who won the Wall Street Journal’s Gold award for technology innovation back in September for their work creating DTrace. It is great to see truly innovative system software recognized at this level.
The team is working on a DTrace for JavaScript code named Helper Monkey, which [...]

Business success, product success

Back in April I posted about how everybody will think your business model is stupid if you are doing something interesting. In June, I noted that Reed Hastings had articulated with more eloquence. In this theme, Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) has a great post on a related topic. He notes that “if everyone [...]

Support Creative Commons

Many of you have had to put up with my rants on the horrible state of intellectual property laws here in the U.S. Our world benefits so much from participation and group innovation, yet we insist on putting ideas in a locked room of copyright and patents. I believe we need to build a participatory [...]

+ 1 Johnston

Nicholas Scott Johnston was born on 9/26 at 11:37 in Escondido, CA (just north of San Diego.) I’m sure you will all be shocked to learn he has a blog.
In the last decade adoptions have been moving from closed adoptions to open adoptions. In a closed adoption, the baby is separated from the birth mother [...]

It’s the testosterone dummy

Seth pointed me to this quote by Paul Weyrich which made my blood boil (emphasis mine):
It has been known for many years that Congressman Foley was a homosexual. Homosexuals tend to be preoccupied with sex - the idea that he should be continued, or should have been continued as chairman on the Committee [...]