== Life In Code ==
=== A Personal History of Technology ===
=== Ellen Ullman 2017 Multco Hollywood 005.1092 U41L 2017 ===

 . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Ullman | Ellen Ullman 1949 ]]
 . Author of [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/733231306 | Close to the Machine 2012 ]] and [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/56079814 | The Bug 2004 ]]
 .essay collection from years 1994, 1998 ... 2017
 .p005 Programmers don't talk because they must not be interrupted ... Interruption means certain bugs.
 .p012 The Japanese (sponsors) received what their money was intended to buy ... odd behavior ... real top-rate engineers.
 .p015 Underlying every user-friendly interface is a terrific human contempt.
 .p017 like push buttons on a toddler's toy
 .p027 The internet: Mother's little helper for the male engineer
 .p028 I'm an engineer ... love for the intricate lives of things
 .p040 Slackware Linux on a PC, 1983/Stallman 1991/Torvalds
 .p053 Silicon Valley Linux Users Group Torvalds presentation
 .p074 [[ https://yardeni.com/wp-content/uploads/bio.pdf | Ed Yardini ]] Y2K doom
 .p088 ... But people with too many choices are almost as unhappy as those with no choice at all.
 .p100 Friday party at [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGroups | eGroups ]] in SoMA SF, [[ https://www.icef.go.jp/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Carl-Page.pdf | Carl Page ]]
 .p103 "Now comes the light: 100 Mbits per second" (written 1999, now terabits per fiber pair across oceans )
 .p104 Toronto [[ https://www.cfp2000.org/ | Computer, Freedom, and Privacy Conference ]]
 .p113 Whitfield Diffie vs. corporate propertarianism
 .p126 2002 SOMA goes dark, 50% of optical cable laid during boom never lit.
 . 2002 musings on AI, cats
 .p171 computer upgrade, memory
 .p182 [[ https://www.ferrybuildingmarketplace.com/map/ |  Ferry building food hall ... not much veg ]]
 .p199 2006 USA Today story, NSA collecting all phone records (except Qwest)
 .p208 2014 IBM 370 Mainframe [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVS | MVS ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISPF | SPF ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_Entry_Subsystem_2/3 | JES2 ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CICS | CICS ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_sale | POS ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_Control_Language | JCL ]] 
 .p214 zero percent bug - change in weekly report column always zero
 .p221 underscore rather than dash in a variable name destination
 .p232 neighbor's dairy, buyer requirement for large [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk_tank | milk tank ]] (instead of [[ https://www.amazon.com/Old-Milk-Cans/s?k=Old+Milk+Cans | milk cans ]]) put them out of business
  . PITA, but why not combine smaller dairy output into a few cooperative bulk tanks on trucks?  
  . What collection equipment did the milk purchasing coop use before, could that be purchased?
 .p233 bought [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80 | TRS-80 ]] in 1979, start of programming career
 .p258 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra%27s_algorithm | Dijkstra's algorithm ]]
 .p270 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger_button | Hamburger button ]]  
 .p273 Grassy South Park sculptured, shaded by tall new building
 .p285 highrise startup culture replaces small business 'village'
 .p287 virtual reality devices for the blind? 
 .p302 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit | Lavabit ]] shut down after government demanded user identities