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Deep Fritz has tied the score in its match against human chess world champion Vladimir Kramnik. Fun story. (via robotwisdom)
Looks like fall 2003 will be a good time to buy a new Mac. Yum. Here's the slashdot thread.
The site has been slow lately, and now this morning it was completely unreachable. Looks like an overfull disk was the problem. Should be better now.
I was a little weirded out to see some of my spams coming through with *****spam***** prepended to the subject line. I wondered if maybe this was some reverse psychology trick to get me to look inside. Instead, it turns out my dialup ISP has started using spam assassin. My own filters in OS 10.2 mail.app completely demolish all my spam anyway, but it's nice to see them making an effort.
My sister and her husband and my little niece Mary are coming for the weekend. Lots of eating planned. It will be fun to see them. I love when people come to visit NYC and I can show it off. Fun starts tonight at Alias.
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Holy cow! Looks like you can now build 100% native Cocoa applications for OS X 10.2 written entirely in Python.
What does that mean? Well, it might mean that someone like me, who's not a "real" programmer, but is quite comfortable in scripting languages like Perl, PHP, (and given a weeekend to get up to speed) Python, could write a "real" program that runs right on your desktop (and not in your browser.) Traditional Cocoa applications, on the other hand, are usually written in Objective C. That's a "real" language. Definitely more than a weekend for me to learn enough about that to do anything. And possibly out of my range all together.
This is the dream, it seems, that many people have for OS X. Including myself. Make the insides accessible to mere mortals. Let us build stuff with our machines, not just consume what's coming down the wire. And make the building process easy. Python looks like the way to go. If I'm understanding this correctly I'm very excited.
The new Beck album Sea Change is really nice. Meeeeelllllloooow. Thanks Dave.
Lots of meetings this week for the Oct. 26th DC trip. I can see why I've never done anything political before. I really like everyone involved, but it's pretty boring hashing out political differences (and this is inside the group where we all pretty much agree.) It takes a really long time to come to the most simple decisions. Of course I'm no help at all. Luckily we have some folks who really know what they are doing.
Lessig argued today. Kottke has a nice paragraph and some links including Matt "metafilter" Haughey's thoughts, as well as some news links and first hand reports.