Optical Computing – Today Adi Shamir, the “S” in “RSA”, gave the second of his two presentations this week as an invited expert on campus. He has just announced that he cracked the 802.11b encryption scheme. Today I watched his presentation from tuesday on streaming media; it was about the future of optical [...]
Company Meeting – What a huge contrast from last year’s company meeting. Last year was dark and gloomy, and everyone was feeling pretty battered. This year, the roof of Safeco field was open, the sky was blue, and you could feel a pleasant breeze. Before the meeting, dancing jellyfish on windows media [...]
Mundania – Upgraded to Windows XP Professional RTM build today (I was previously running build 2505, this is 2600). Today I am feeling more comfortable about progress on the new project; everyone seems engaged and incredibly competent. Tomorrow the whole day will be blown with the company-wide meeting at Safeco Field, and Monday [...]
Dogfooding Source Control – Joel talks about source control at Microsoft. The main question he brings up is “why doesn’t Microsoft use Visual Sourcesafe for all source-control needs?” He rightly points out that most of us feel that “Dogfood is the best food!”. There are sometimes products that don’t get dogfooded as [...]
Do Women Compute? – Scoble thinks that men are risk-takers and women are nurturers. Dave agrees that the lack of women in computing is a “problem”, and suggests in true Lancelot style that perhaps the solution is for a man to write some software for women. I like this. For once, two [...]