For the record, here’s something I consider worth some serious research:

Robustly linked views of data stores (filesystems) based on semantic topology. The underlying model is, in general, a continuous one, of differentiable manifolds, but the discrete graph view is an embedding, and probably consists of harmonic nodes on the manifold. (Are there […]

The bulk of the material on the web concerning GNU autotools, from libtool up through automake and autoconf, concern the brokenness of the system. I hold that this system for producing spaghetti is intrinsically harmful to software development progress.

The autotools, by design, produce incomprehensible, misleadingly indented, highly redundant code which has to be reverse-engineered […]

New job. Thought it would rock. Find out I’m stucking doing linux sysadmin, php programming, software installs and bug fixes. This is double-plus ungood, and I know it.

However, I can’t stop the task until it completes satisfactorily. I cannot tolerate failure. Therefore, I will rock this monster into the ground.

And […]

Squeeeeeezing this reverse proxy out is painful.  The mind boggles.  The sweat drops form.  Madness crouches at the door.  But it must be done, come hell or high water, today.  And with that, I am back to the brick wall, until next time.

Starting a new job, new challenges, new opportunities.  I’m planning to use the Development Log to track notes and progress.  Comments are solicited.

Task 1: Latent Semantic Analysis

This task is a bit ambiguous since my commandante is vague so far about requirements.  That’s okay, I can run with it, because it’s cool and fun.  LSA feeds […]

Product Idea: Forensic Snapshot

Linux needs PE binary format support

General-purpose multimodal notification as an application service

The organization man is just one kind; humans create systems in which to embed themselves.

Commodity clusters are easy if you decouple layers and make each layer scalable.