ImperialViolet

I'm working on a BitTorrent tracker in C, as bram asked for one in the todo. It's half-done I guess and since the point of it is speed it has some pretty funky data structures which are going to take a while to debug. In fact the function to verify them is looking pretty hairy.

Unless you have your head deep in the sand you'll know that Edsger Dijkstra has died of cancer. Joey has the best writeup so far.

Cryptome has long served as the website for infomation that some people wouldn't like published. It now has a companion site, The Memory Hole. Salute these people - they do the good work.

• An algorithm for prime testing in polynomial time
• Janis Ian Redux
• Everything you've always wanted to know about Yasir Arafat and far more besides
• Python Blog which is worth a read
• XHTML 2 fallout
• Barcode generator
• BPI (the UK RIAA) is trying to get £1 million from a chain of Internet cafes which had CD burners in store