Author Archives: dru

A fellow Self enthusiast from France expressed interest in Cel, the prototype-based OO language I created a few years back. I believe he is interested in making a language himself. The web site has been down for years so I … Continue reading →

* * C O R V U S S Y S T E M S * CONSTELLATION II * *

I read this blog post about a symbolics Lisp Machine and couldn’t help but smile

Today, I was thinking about the whole Apple iPhone announcment. They mention OS X and that is all well and good. However, I definitely think the iPhone will be a closed system rather than an open one like the desktop. … Continue reading →

Last year, Goldman Sachs pulled distillates from their commodities index. This was prior to the elections. This caused lots of other funds to unload their positions in those stocks and started accelerated a big drop in gas prices. This wasn’t … Continue reading →

The Wall Street Journal front page has this to say about the recent “surge”: Bush aides met outrage in pushing an Iraq “surge” on Capitol Hill. Rice was told by Republican Sen. Hagel that the president’s decision to send more … Continue reading →

I was lured by a popular link on Digg to check out this movie that was completely done on a Macintosh ][ back in the day. The movie is reminiscent of the kind of CG from that period (fun, simple … Continue reading →

When you are in the internet business, you need internet tools. Pretty obvious right? However, when the discussion is between tech people on different platforms (Win/IE, Mac/Safari, Opera), they all have their favorite browser. In my mind this argument is … Continue reading →