My copy of Mac OS 10.4 arrived Friday, right on schedule. I spent the weekend backing up my laptop, doing a clean install, and then restoring my data, which also fixed the problem I’ve been having where applications take a really long time to launch. No problems so far and performance is noticeably faster. You gotta love an OS where each update makes your existing hardware faster.  Read →

My copy of the new Python Cookbook arrived today (pretty quick considering my first issue of Make magazine hasn’t arrived yet). It’s pretty cool to see my name in an O’Reilly book, even for only a single recipe. The book looks great too, I think Alex and Anna and David have done a great job and I’m really looking forward to going through it. Thanks to everyone who replied about the missing word. I’ve been a bit overwhelmed lately and haven’t had a chance to follow up with that, but the responses were all great.  Read →

A post by Patrick Logan on languages, in response to something Bill de hÓra wrote on language and communication inspired me to think some more about the language I’d like to be programming in. If you follow those links you might be interested to know that KIF is the Knowledge Interchange Format, FIPA is the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents, and ACL is the Agent Communication Language.  Read →