William Grosso @ October 26, 2006
One of the great things about having children is that you suddenly realize just how hard everyday actions really are.
Andrew knows that the food should go inside his mouth. And it starts out there. But, somehow, it keeps squirting out.
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William Grosso @ October 12, 2006
This weekend, I’ll be at No Fluff Just Stuff. For my money, still the best value in software conferences.
I used to speak for them, now I just attend. The price of becoming management, I guess.
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William Grosso @ October 11, 2006
So Paul and I went to grad school together. Afterwards, I went off to the valley and he went off to be an academic.
Then he founded Fivesight (later bought by Intalio) to work on BPEL. Then he worked for Amazon. Now he’s an independent. As befits his wanderings, he’s got a clever and eclectic [...]
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William Grosso @ October 10, 2006
I was wrong; I thought Mark Cuban (see also) was completely convincing.
On the bright side, I’m happy to announce that the new video of Andrew is apparently going to be served out of the world’s biggest supercomputer.
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William Grosso @ October 9, 2006
So sometime in the past year or two, Paul Graham famously asked
The three big powers on the Internet now are Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft. Average age of their founders: 24. So it is pretty well established now that grad students can start successful companies. And if grad students can do it, why [...]
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William Grosso @ October 7, 2006
Then holiday themed baby photos are perfectly appropriate.
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William Grosso @ October 7, 2006
If you’re at all interested in the current world chess championships, I highly recommend Susan Polgar’s Blog. I would also have recommended The Kenilworthian, but it just went on sabbatical until 2007.
In any case, it’s fun to watch the games. I play chess badly and what I realized is this: for those of us who [...]
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William Grosso @ October 2, 2006
The inaugural issue of Foundations and Trends in Web Science, entitled A Framework For Web Science is available for free download.
Each issue of FnTWEB is an in-depth review of a single topic. This one appears (it’s 130 pages and I haven’t read it yet) to be making the case for “Web Science” as a discipline. [...]
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William Grosso @ October 2, 2006
After a brief hiatus, Mark has started up the future salon again.
This is great news for the bay area.
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