Category: General

OREM, UTAH — In a startling and unexpected joint press conference, CBS and SCO, Inc. charged today that President George W. Bush had conspired with IBM to steal Unix code while Linus Torvalds was AWOL from the Finnish army. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder at the podium, Dan Rather and Darl McBride flourished what they said was documentary… Continue reading CBS and SCO Charge: Bush stole Unix!

Yup, the blizzard is big. Here in eastern Pennsylvania we’ve had over a foot of snow and a lot of drifting today. I shoveled my driveway. I’m going to be stiff tomorrow.

I’ve spent a lot of time and effort since 1997 developing effective propaganda tactics for reaching the business world on behalf of the hacker community — among other things, by popularizing the term ‘open source’. If you want to grok how this is done, read my October 15 interview with a bunch of Prudential Securities… Continue reading The Prudential interview

Thanks, all of you, for the compliments. The last thing I expected was to become a geek pinup! Cathy Raymond

“Free Love”, eh? Well, that would explain a lot. Jack must have been the dude I saw damn near run into a doorframe yesterday because he was checking out my wife Cathy so intently he forgot to watch where he was going. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

This is what kept me too busy to blog for months: To find out more about it, go here.

I always wanted to be a Heinlein character when I grew up. Somebody thinks I succeeded… Robert Heinlein wrote you – your stranger in astrange land, you. Which Author’s Fiction are You? brought to you by Quizilla

I learned something this weekend about the high cost of the subtle delusion that creative technical problem-solving is the preserve of a priesthood of experts, using powers and perceptions beyond the ken of ordinary human beings. Terry Pratchett is the author of the Discworld series of satirical fantasies. He is — and I don’t say… Continue reading The Delusion of Expertise

Some deeply warped Christmas humor here . Now, this Santa might get me the presents I really want. Like, say, a custom-tuned Baer .45 semiauto. Or Liv Tyler, fetchingly attired in nothing but a pair of Arwen ears. I actually did get a really peculiar Christmas present from a stranger this morning. It was a… Continue reading Some Christmas cheer

I’ve on hiatus for a bit while I wrap up my next book, The Art Of Unix Programming. Blogspot comments

My good buddy Doc Searls says I’m a warblogger, not a techblogger. Truth is I’ve never thought of myself either way. I had only the vaguest notion what a `warblogger’ is until I followed his links to the definitional discussion. I write stuff related to 9/11 because it’s one of the definining events of our… Continue reading Who’s a warblogger? Blogotypology considered

My good buddy Doc Searls says I’m a warblogger, not a techblogger. Truth is I’ve never thought of myself either way. I had only the vaguest notion what a `warblogger’ is until I followed his links to the definitional discussion. I write stuff related to 9/11 because it’s one of the definining events of our… Continue reading Who’s a warblogger? Blogotypology considered

Welcome to Armed And Dangerous, an experiment in weblogging. This is a test. This is only a test. If this had been an actual emergency, this post would be immediately followed by a pointer to some old-media channel that would tell you what to think.