Elegant Chaos

This is another great mac development story - about the Graphing Calculator:

"It's midnight. I've been working sixteen hours a day, seven days a week. I'm not being paid. In fact, my project was canceled six months ago, so I'm evading security, sneaking into Apple Computer's main offices in the heart of Silicon Valley, doing clandestine volunteer work for an eight-billion-dollar corporation."

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/22/0146243&from=rss (Via Slashdot: Apple.)

Somehow I don't think we rate Eagle status...

We've moved anyway. Only temporary (looking after a house & cat), so most of our stuff is piled into an 100 square feet storage unit!

Very zen (not the storage unit, but life without it's contents). Or it would be, if this house wasn't full of pictures of cats, statues of cats, rugs with cats on, cat shaped soap, cat mugs, cat... well you get the picture. Still, after this I plan to move to a cave somewhere and become a hermit (as long as the cave has broadband).

The house is great anyway (thanks Ellen!), but the best I can say about the process of moving is that we're still alive, mostly due to the sterling efforts of Svein, Cate, Chris, Danny and our mums!

I was just reading some old papers about Self, and was wondering about the relationship between Self and Dylan (my favourite language).

This lead me (via Google of course) to The Encyclopedia of Computer Languages, within which I discovered this utterly crazy pdf document: which is a language family tree!

I'd quite like to print it out and put it on my wall, but I don't think I've got a large enough wall...