2004's Greatest Hits

As a substitute for writing a new post, here's my list of the best of 2004:

• Notes towards Memoirs of a Bit Player
• More Memoir: Chemistry for Software Engineers
• Tall latte with no volatile organic compounds, please.
• Instant Immortality
  In fact, this has been widely quoted.
• Poor girl. But now we can see you in the dark!
  Tropicana lived for 30 more (mostly good) months.
• VC Funded Startups (a song)
• The Three Laws of Security
• The Koan of Lazy Evaluation
• Burn the disk packs!
  

Stop me if you've seen this before

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End of an Error (reprise)

With a little luck, George Jr. will be the last baby-boomer^* president our country has to suffer. Sorry, Hillary. There's lots I like about my fellow boomers, but we'd all be better off if the 60's were taken for granted rather than have those battles constantly re-fought.

That said, a song went through my head today that only the Woodstock generation would know:

I heard a song last night
What a lovely song it was
I thought I´d hum it all night
Unforgettable because

All of the players were playing together
And all of the heavies were light as a feather
All I remember is a feeling tomorrow
And as I recall the rest will just follow
— I had a dream, John Sebastian

Our great national nightmare will soon be over.

* I say the definition of a baby-boomer is someone who doesn't remember WWII, but does remember the Kennedy assasination.

Go, Panthers!

It's good to see fellow ISB grads get into positions of power.

Tim, I'm rooting for you. More than that: I'm counting on you.

Music to brute force by

i tried your birthday
i tried your mom's first name
i have the password to your...
i tried your cat's name
i tried your favourite band
i have the password to your...
...shell account
— Barcelona, I Have the Password to Your Shell Account