Archive for April, 2005

SCIgen – An Automatic CS Paper Generator

By Surferbill - Last updated: Tuesday, April 26, 2005

An exercise in context-free grammar.

Star Wars Revelations

By Surferbill - Last updated: Monday, April 25, 2005

As first revealed in my post here.

Database misuse: who watches the watchers?

By Surferbill - Last updated: Friday, April 22, 2005

Misuse of database information by insiders happens everyday, and there’s little we can do about it. Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodies? Tu et ego. But who is watching the watchers? You and I.

Plane Lands on Highway

By Surferbill - Last updated: Monday, April 18, 2005

DNS Stuff

By Surferbill - Last updated: Sunday, April 17, 2005

Stuff to do with, er, DNS. And more.

The Carly Fiorina Years

By Surferbill - Last updated: Thursday, April 14, 2005

Work at HP? Survived the Carly Fiorina years? Visit the Survivor Memorabilia Shop. Worked at HP? Laid off by Carly? Visit the Victim Memorabilia Shop!

del.icio.us

By Surferbill - Last updated: Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Soc.ial boo.kma.rks.

Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?

By Surferbill - Last updated: Monday, April 11, 2005

Blogger Status

By Surferbill - Last updated: Friday, April 8, 2005

I’ve been having a bitch of a time getting to Blogger.com today, but managed to load up their status page. “Friday, April 08, 2005 If you are experiencing problems loading Blogger.com, please try clearing the cookies in your browser.” Simple as that!

Naming rights to the Moxie Cinebar up for grabs on eBay

By Surferbill - Last updated: Friday, April 8, 2005

It’s the story of the millenium*! Dan and Nicole Chilton are opening an art-house cinema in Springfield, Missouri, and have run into financial difficulties. So what to do? Sell your body? Sell your soul? Or sell naming rights to the concessions stand? You guessed it… prostitution and working for the devil are out, and sponsorship [...]