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Some Thoughts on Software

I’ve spent twenty-five years building software. My role in the process has ranged from grunt coder to the head of development for one of the worlds largest software companies. In the business of making software, as in all pursuits, when

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TicTacToe

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Oh Happy Day

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Oh Canada!

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Do you know your arse from you elbow?

Finally a test is available. I scored 71%, a passing though not impressive grade. While you’re at it, check out the ASS-O-TRON

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No More Fanaticism as Usual

It’s been quite a week in the wonderful world of Islam…Nigerian Islam’s encounter with that powerhouse of subversion, the Miss World contest, has been unedifying, to put it mildly. First some of the contestants had the nerve to object to

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Postmodernism Defined

For now, Mr. Gore can only attempt to explain what motivates the ceaseless lampooning he continues to face from America’s columnists and commentators. “That’s postmodernism,” he offered. “It’s the combination of narcissism and nihilism that really defines postmodernism, and that’s

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Projects at the Information Awareness Office

IAO Home Babylon Bio-Surveillance Communicator Effective, Affordable, Reusable Speech-to-Text (EARS) Evidence Extraction and Link Discovery (EELD) FutureMap Genisys Genoa Genoa II Human ID at a Distance (HumanID) Total Information Awareness (TIA) System Translingual Information Detection, Extraction and Summarization (TIDES) Wargaming

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What is the ‘@’ sign called? Ampersand, asterisk, tilde, comma, parentheses. Most of the commonly used symbols in the English language have particular names associated with them, so we can talk about them without having to say “you know, that

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