Rondam Ramblings

Preaching the gospel of evidence, experiment and reason since 2003.

I'm on the road with very limited internet connectivity so I can't do the homework I normally would before posting this, so it's possible th...

I debated with myself for a long time over whether to write this post (which is one of the reasons some of the subject matter is a little ol...

Underlying the debate about the so-called Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is the unstated assumption that intellectual property rights have th...

It breaks my heart to write this post because the puzzle in question was 1) very expensive and 2) given to me by someone very dear to me who...

Someone over on Hacker news posted a link to a comp.lang.lisp post that I wrote three years ago that's generating a lot of discussion. I f...

[NOTE: See updates below and here .] I'm working on an application that requires a secure password hash. The state of the art is Colin Perc...

Just now I did a routine Google search whose top result ended up being a thread on Google Groups. To my shock, when I tried to click on thi...

I just had a very disturbing conversation with a Rackspace Cloud CSR. It went something like this: CSR: Can I have your account user name a...

An essay I wrote six years ago about some of my experiences working for NASA has gotten some recent attention on Reddit and Hacker News . ...

The nerdosphere is abuzz about Arc , Paul Graham's long-awaited new dialect of Lisp, so I figured I might as well pile on. For the benef...