Friday, February 19, 2010

MacBook dipped in yogurt

Just dipped my MacBook in yogurt… Spend an hour trying to clean a flooded ethernet and two firewire ports. Finally decided to open up the case. Now I have two extra screws…

Sunday, November 8, 2009
It is a staple of Science Fiction that once a computer (or computer network) becomes sufficiently complex, sentience is inevitable. And big sentient computers can be bad news. As both the owner of what is almost certainly the world’s largest general purpose computing cluster, and our self-nominated bastion against evil, I really hope someone at Google is keeping an eye on this. The Fishbowl
Sunday, September 13, 2009
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup, originator of C++