April 21, 2003

Maple Leafs stay alive for Game Seven! 10:49:56 PM

Dave Pollard has a summary of responses of dozen Reponses to a six-question survey he sent out asking Salon/Radio users for their opinions on the product. Key points that I agree with: Templates are too hard to use if you are not an HTML expert. Users should have the ability to have archives other then one day a at time Poor documentation My biggest wish – better URLs. I want markfox.radio.com. Via Dave Winer – who can do something about these issues. 10:34:05 PM

The team of Ronald L. Rivest of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Adi Shamir of the Weizmann Institute in Israel and Leonard M. Adleman of the University of Southern California have been awarded the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2002 A.M. Turing Award. The trio is best known for their work on public key encryption including the RSA public key algorithm. By coincidence the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco was taking place when the award was announced. 9:40:23 PM

2002 Nebula Awards Announced The 2002 Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards were announced at the annual Nebula banquet Saturday evening, April 19, in Philadelphia PA. The Best Novel was American Gods by Neil Gaiman, which also won the 2002 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Hell is the Absence of God by Ted Chiang was a double winner in both the Nebula and Hugo Novelette category. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring won as Best Script in the Nebula Awards and Best Dramatic Presentation in the Hugo Awards. 12:09:24 AM