The Rosetta Clock
Here’s an applet I wrote that draws clocks in 5 different numeral systems. From the top row down, they are: Binary Skew Binary Ternary Balanced Ternary Decimal The first column is the hours, the...
Category: programming
Why I hate browser inconsistencies…
This post is going to be somewhat out of character for me – it doesn’t include anything about food. But if I can write this up and save anyone else the frustration that I’ve...
Bad Code Offsets
Here’s a useful idea; Bad Code Offsets. They basically work just like carbon offsets, but for bad code. Just like carbon offsets, they’re designed to expose external costs to the correcting forces of the...
Cookie and XFish
When I blogged about Multics yesterday, I forgot to mention my favorite Multics program. Cookie was a program that you use to use to hack someone’s account when they left a terminal logged in....
Multics Turns 40
Multics, one of my favorite operating systems recently turned 40. I first encountered it in ‘76 on the big machine at MIT. It was quite a revelation at the time. The other systems I...
SPDE Starlings
OK, I think I’ve got SPDE generating applets now. Let’s see how this works. Leave me a comment if you have trouble running this one. This is a variant of the Bees sketch I...
J. C. R. Licklider as the Antichrist
David Byrne had a post on his blog the other day in which he laments the fact that so many of the physical objects which we have valued for decades or centuries will disappear...
Clarke Scratch Club – Year 4 begins
Scratch Club started up again at Clarke. This is the fourth year that I’m running the Scratch Programming Club after school at the kids’ middle school. The sign up sheets were overflowing with names...
