UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.

I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.

Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right.

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.