SCO is dead!

Well, they are not quite dead yet, but they've filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection -- possibly in order to stave off a judgment in their lawsuit with Novell. Doesn't sound desperate to me, either.

SCO is the company that falsely claimed that Linux developers had included SCO Intellectual Property without permission into the Linux operating system. They made a bunch of very bold and factually inaccurate claims resulting in lawsuits against IBM, Novell, RedHat, and even a few of their own customers (they sued them!).

Turns out that was a bad idea. Oh well, such is the life of a Microsoft pawn.

What is it, you'd say, you do here?

Sometimes I get asked what it is I "do." Well, here's what I currently do, explained on Science Friday. MP3 audio is also available from the Science Friday podcast.

The connect the dots picture in the first link is a graph. I'm currently helping develop a system that draws such pictures using financial data for much the same purposes as described in the interview.

Daring Cuisine - Haggis

Mike Myers claimed that "most Scottish cuisine is based on a dare" in So I Married an Axe Murderer, but I have to say I like haggis, at least in small portions. It's a bit like what many Americans would identify as "hash," though spicier and not as mushy. The spice is of the "Spiced Cider" variety as opposed to the Jalapeno variety.

I should have known that 5 million Scots wouldn't be wrong.