Recycled Knowledge

... so I'm looking for work. Though I've been a programmer most of my professional life, I've spent the last four years doing do...

I'm announcing my  UK Whacking Latin family of keyboard drivers  for Windows.  They allow you to type more than 900 different Unicode ch...

Serbo-Croat? Serbian? Croatian? Bosnian? Montenegrin? How many languages is that?  Saying that there are four languages, or that there is o...

I'm announcing my U.S. Moby Latin keyboard driver for Windows.  It allows you to type more than 900 different Unicode characters, witho...

Back in 1999-2002, starting before the Peter Jackson films had appeared, a blogger named Mark-Edmond Howell undertook to read the whole of T...

Here is Christian Morgenstern's lovely poem "Das Nasobēm", which was written around 1895 and is usually called a nonsense poe...

Programming languages can be divided into three groups based on their implementation strategies: A) Multiple competing implementations, rel...

Parallelism refers to physically simultaneous execution.  When you raise both arms above your head, you do so in parallel.  Nothing can be...

Here's a version of Schleicher's Fable in Lojban with word-by-word glosses (note the use of letters as pronouns).  You can see Lat...

John McCarthy, the inventor of Lisp, died last month.  The new R7RS Scheme standard will be dedicated to his memory.  As another dedication,...

From Beckett's early novel Molloy,  later reprinted separately under the title of "Sucking-Stones".  I have introduced paragra...

The Oxford English Dictionary has had three editions: the original edition, published in twelve volumes from 1888 to 1928, and known ret...

RFC 1178 , a wise and funny set of rules on how to name computers (and how not to), recommends that groups of computers that have something ...