Archive for July 8th, 2009

Goodbye Old Friend

I’m sorry guys, but it’s just too tough to post this morning.  My lovely dog Sage, who has laid at my feet while I have blogged for the past several years, passed away yesterday  at the age of 13.  We’ve been together since she was two months old, and I’m feeling just a little lost. Sage was something special.  She was obedient, intelligent and beautiful.  She was an Australian Shepherd with a strong herding instinct.  My children were her sheep and she dedicated her life to watching over them.  She was a Mama’s girl though, and when the kids were…
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Do we make grapple grommits? Aleynikov fog may be lifting

  • Published: July 8th, 2009
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Apologies all around to Doomers who have been putting up with my silly sidebar comments to the sillier stories on the Sergey Aleynikov story to now.  As an excuse, I submit that as an obsolete burned out former techie who wasted much of his career doing things like trying to make MRPG work or (this one mildly successful) adapting Pascal source with MASM exits into an ANSI PL/I program to implement LZW compression on Multics multi-segment files (sorry about that, Mr. Sperry!), I sensed from early on that something important was going to come out of the Goldman IP affair. …
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