Mitch Wyle's Web Log

James Mickens’ column in usenix magazine keeps getting better.  This month’s riff on systems programmers is spot-on.  Here is a representat...

I was in business meetings at eBay’s North (PayPal) campus today.  Many people who saw me in the hall ways scheduled phone meetings since I ...

http://www.theonion.com/articles/fasttalking-computer-hacker-just-has-to-break-thro,32000/

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/04/report-google-to-end-forced-g-integration-drastically-cut-division-resources The evil search giant E...

Back in the 1990’s we had a fantastic ecommerce web site generator someone coded up in perl.  It took random National Geographic pictures of...

Apartment on the beach (more photos here ; video )     Sea World (more photos here )     UCSD Tour (more...

As a big fan of Ayan Hirsi Ali I was, of course, disappointed by the dogmatic intolerance of Brandeis University when they withdrew their ...

During this wonderful explosive “bubble time” of free social networking services we are actively giving away any semblance of privacy, propr...

  device.modeOfTransport.on('changed', function(signal) { if (signal.previous === 'driving' && signal.current !=...