Raspberry Pi

My Raspberry Pi arrived, complete with T-shirt:

Now back to the days when computing was fun! Next on the shopping list: camera, a few motors, maybe a radio transmitter....

I was going to make a series of unboxing pictures, but there was little packaging and excitement meant that even that didn't last long.... :-)

Dennis Ritchie Day

Dennis Ritchie Day

On 10/30/11 let's remember the contributions of computing pioneer Dennis Ritchie.

by Tim O'Reilly | @timoreilly  | +Tim O'Reilly  | Comments: 25 | 26 October 2011

Sunday, October 16 was declared Steve Jobs Day by California's Governor Brown. I admire Brown for taking a step to recognize Jobs' extraordinary contributions, but I couldn't help be struck by Rob Pike's comments on the death of Dennis Ritchie a few weeks after Steve Jobs. Pike wrote:

I was warmly surprised to see how many people responded to my Google+ post about Dennis Ritchie's untimely passing. His influence on the technical community was vast, and it's gratifying to see it recognized. When Steve Jobs died there was a wide lament — and well-deserved it was — but it's worth noting that the resurgence of Apple depended a great deal on Dennis' work with C and Unix.

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Ritchie and McCarthy

A sad month for computing after the passing of two of the founder of the science:

• John McCarthy, inventor of Lisp and the founder of the AI paradigm
• Dennis Ritchie, inventor of C and Unix.

RIP to both.