Google IPO

Google filed for their IPO this afternoon. They are seeking to raise $2,178,281,828. In other words, e billion dollars. I recommend bypassing the media stories, and simply reading Google's S-1 filing yourself. It's actually quite engaging, especially the Letter From the Founders and the Risk Factors .

Case Housing RSS

The Case Housing Office has an RSS feed for their news items.

Classes Over

Classes are over for the semester, and I can finally relax a little. On Monday I had two papers, a programming project, and a homework assignment due, and I had to scramble to get everything done. When I turned in the last assignment on Monday, I was so relieved that I felt a little like the Millennium Falcon shooting out of the Death Star in ROTJ. I relaxed yesterday and watched some episodes of Penn and Teller's Bullshit and Curb Your Enthusiasm . I can't relax too much though, since I still have to complete my final exams. Fortunately, my finals are fairly spread out, and I don't expect any of them to be terribly difficult.

Embedding Frameworks

Jonathan "Wolf" Rentzsch has posted a video documenting the process of creating an embeddable Cocoa framework. I ran into this exact problem yesterday. As a bonus, it shows how to set up inter-project dependencies, which I didn't know were possible. I had been using a hackish workaround that involved putting multiple targets in the same project (when I really wanted them to be seperate projects). Thanks Wolf!

Search Tree

It's the end of the semester, and projects are coming due, so I haven't posted lately. The low post frequency will continue until the end of the week at the earliest. Anyway, I was making a list of all the stuff I need to get done this week, and it occurred to me that planning for the semester is kind of like adversarial search in game playing. Right now, the leaves of the tree are coming into sight, and I'm close to determining the outcome of the game. It looks like I'll win, but with a narrow margin of victory.

Reason Magazine Cover

This is really cool: Reason Magazine will be customizing the cover of its June issue for each subscriber. The cover will include a satellite picture of the subscriber's home. I let my subscription to Reason lapse, simply because I normally don't have enough time to read it, but after this I may resubscribe.

(Via Slashdot )