GWU has a list of Student Home Pages. Strangely enough it's impossible to get into it by following any links from the main page.

Flashlight without a battery

This is an old Soviet flashlight. It works from the energy generated by your wrists!

PRMIA Quarterly Member Update is not quarterly at all

PRMIA has Quarterly Members Update magazine. What's funny's that it has never been quarterly! Here's the number of issues per year:

2002 - 24 (bi-monthly)
2003 - 15 (monthly-ish)
2004 - 13 (monthly-ish)
2005 - 10 (monthly-ish)
2006 - 11 (monthly-ish)
2007 - 6 (bimonthly)
2008 - 4 (ok, quarterly, at last!)
2009 - 3 (quarterly-ish)
2010 - 1 to date (yearly?)

Stephen Hawking says God isn't necessary | TG Daily

Stephen Hawking says God isn't necessary | TG Daily

Electric carmaker Tesla to open D.C. store

Electric carmaker Tesla to open D.C. store

Awesome! I'd love to own one of those.

I got my talk accepted at JavaOne this year

It's quite exciting, but now I need to prepare the slides by Sept 3rd.


There's 18 competing sessions on JavaOne track, and 9 more in Oracle. This is intimidating. Is anyone going to show up on my session? :)

Witold Lipski

It's a Pi Day today!

I thought it's fitting to post about Witold Lipski. In his short life (36 years) he managed to leave an impressive body of work. I love his monograph on combinatorics. It was printed in Soviet Union under title "Комбинаторика для программистов". It came with Pascal code and contained a wide range of algorithms. It's written clearly and very "applied" in style.