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Friday, October 11, 2002

It appears that there is only one course on Software Engineering available from MIT's OpenCourseware experiment. That course, Laboratory in Software Engineering, looks pretty good as an undergraduate introduction to systems engineering; it uses Java as the implementation language. The materials, especially the lecture notes, are impressive. 3:19:33 PM    comment []

C# standardization moves ahead. Microsoft and its allies make a quiet advance in pushing C#, a competitor to Java and a foundation for the company's next-generation Internet services. [CNET News.com]  Microsoft is moving towards ISO standardization of the C# language. 2:19:59 PM    comment []

Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize. Hooray! I don't know if the country's ever had a better ex-President. 12:48:32 PM    comment []

Apollonians Beware! Thoughts on an evening at Sotheby's 12:31:35 PM    comment []

Friday Five: 1. If you could only choose 1 cd to ever listen to again, what would it be? The Deutsche Grammophon CD of Von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic for Beethoven's Symphonie No. 9. 2. If you could only choose 2 movies to watch ever again, what would they be? Seas of Life and Casablanca 3. If you could only choose 3 books to read ever again, what would they be? Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series (21 novels), Joseph Campbell's The Masks of God (4 volumes), and William Goldman's The Princess Bride. 4. If you could only choose 4 things to eat or drink ever again, what would they be? A pizza from this place in Boston that went out of business a decade ago, king mackerel steamed in banana leaves with a fresh-squeezed lime juice from this place in Sarong, Irian Jaya, and a 25-year-old Macallan single malt. (This isn't at a single meal, right?) 5. If you could only choose 5 people to ever be/talk/associate/whatever with ever again, who would they be? Just between Tina and my immediate family I'm over the limit. 6:37:41 AM    comment []