I still have my gambling story followup to post, and I have an essay brewing on W and the State of the Union, but that’ll wait until I have more available bandwidth.

A wonderful site found today on the history of ping, which is a Unix command to see if another computer on the Internet is minimally responsive. It’s also the title of a wonderful children’s book which was my fave back in 1972. The ping page includes a review of the children’s book as if it were an allegory for the Unix command, not to be missed, and a humorous anecdote about a Unix manager who bought the book by mistake.