The prevailing wisdom about spam recommending stock is that it is part of illegal pump-and-dump operations. It would be interesting to monitor such spam and the performance of the recommended stocks, and determining whether it’s possible to make money by taking the contrarian approach and selling those stocks short.
I’m not about to try it [...]

After thinking about it for many years, I finally started writing a spec and a proof-of-concept implementation for my 2-D control flow programming language BOUNCY. The code isn’t yet ready for release, and there will be some further changes and additions to the language, but I thought I’d invite comments.
Although I thought the idea [...]

I have a damaged DVD that will no longer play in my DVD player. My computer seems to be able to read it OK. The official position of the MPAA is that I’m shit-outa-luck, and should just buy another copy. Naturally I prefer to exercise fair use rights, and make a backup [...]

As I was driving home on I-880 after visiting a friend tonight, another vehicle threw up a rock and put a crack in the windshield. At 65 MPH that makes quite a loud noise; it startled me and at first I didn’t realize what had happened. There goes another few hundred bucks. [...]