I'm in a cafe in Berkeley, and it's raining. I haven't lived here since ... 2004? but it still feels like home. All the shops on Shattuck Avenue are familiar. In an hour, when they open, I'm going to go over to the Other Change of Hobbit and buy books, and then I will scurry to the airport to catch the plane back to San Diego. The company decided that all of us remote employees should come to ...
... the process to the public. This year they've opened the nomination process to the public. http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/nominations for how to nominate. http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall_of_fellows.html for a list of who's already in. This is a nice honor, and ...
... panels that we could use folks for: 1) Second Life- Anyone out there a Second Lifer and interested in talking about it? 2) wikis- There's a wiki for everything now and we'd love to have a panel about how to use them to gather a wide knowledge base and create communities, but we need people to be on it! 3) MUSHs, MUCKs, MUDs and Such. Send interests to garcia@computerhistory.org! Chris
Now that it's over a week since this year's Assembly started, I think
the time is right for a semi-well-thought summary.
After three years of delay, I finally released a
VIC-20 demo that uses the
bus trick I described in summer 2003 in my "VIC-20
frontiers" article.
Basically, the trick makes the processor put specific bytes on the data bus
in a specific order, and these bytes get ...
... I just can't get. Weekend plans screwed? Never! One thing y'all can do: if I had your phone number, or if I should have your phone even if I didn't before, send it again to garcia@computerhistory.org. I'd be ever so grateful. I probably won't be getting a phone for least another two weeks (luckily this is a three paycheck month!) but I wanna have them so I can reprogramme them. NOw, since I...
... at the IHOP on Great America Parkway The BASFA Times 'Zine Committee reported that the preliminary cover is done, but that it needs more content ['all the news that fits'], so send articles to garcia@computerhistory.org Bruce moved that for the duration of the meetingeveryone be referred to as 'Chris for TAFF' & it failed [tall] Kevin proposed that Yokohama be annexed as part of the Far East ...