I've discovered some incredible computer-generated art through the Internet Ray Tracing Contest and POVRay. These sites highlight the intricate capabilities of ray tracing tools for creating realistic and artistic digital imagery.
I'm sharing a New York Times article exploring Ray Ozzie’s challenge to modernize Microsoft. It examines whether Ozzie can successfully reprogram the company's culture and strategy to embrace the shifting landscape of internet services.
I highlighted Daniel Egnor's winning solution for the 2002 Google programming contest. The entry focused on creating a high-performance indexing and search system to efficiently process and query a large corpus of text documents.
I explore Staci Kramer's analysis of how news about Turner Broadcasting's controversial stance on ad-skipping spread across the early internet, tracing its path through legal sites and personal blogs to illustrate digital information flow.
I looked through the winners of Timex's Future of Time design contest, which showcases futuristic concepts for watches. My favorite is the 'nail watch,' a creative take on how we might wear clocks in the future.
I share the classic technical support legend where a sysadmin debugs an email server restricted by the speed of light, tracing a bizarre 500-mile limit to a misconfigured timeout setting during a Sendmail upgrade.