Current Boxholder

When I am Earth Overlord, postal mail addressed to current resident or boxholder will be forbidden. Catalogs and other junk mail will be opt-in. Violators of these edicts will be thrown into a 6' by 8' jail cell.

The same cell.

For all violators.

My guards will just keep pushing until all of them fit.

Encryption Backdoors

When encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption.

CLIPS Year in Review: 2015

Since my consulting gig with IBM ended in 2014, this was the first year in a long while I was able to devote most of my time to CLIPS development.

The major accomplishment this year was the release of version 6.3, which included significant performance improvements for some types of problems. The microEMACS editor, X Window interface, and help functions were put out to pasture with this release.

The first beta releases of CLIPS iOS, CLIPS .NET, and CLIPS CGI also occurred in 2015. CLIPS JNI also had two updates.

Finally, work on CLIPS 6.4 (code name Cypher) started in 2015. This release will include IDEs for .NET, MacOS, and Java Swing with unicode support and similar functionality; completed versions of CLIPS JNI, CLIPS .NET, CLIPS iOS, and CLIPS CGI; Adventures in CLIPS Programming (a replacement for the CLIPS User's Guide); and major usability enhancements for deftemplates/facts.

Darth Vader Endorsement

If Darth Vader were to allow his name to be used for promotional purposes, I'm pretty sure whoever approved this product would get force choked.

Old Proverb Update

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Unfortunately, there's some who'd rather starve than learn.

Zombie Sneak Attacks

Every zombie sneak attack in The Walking Dead reminds me of this scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Affordable Health Care 2015 Road Bump

For individual health plans, there are no longer any providers in Texas that offer PPOs. I'll have to switch over to an HMO in 2016.