Did you receive the Sky Niteclub spam? If so, please tell me. I'm trying to get an idea of how many people received it.
Some people still don't get it:
The match was announced at the exclusive New York Athletic Club, at an hors d'oeuvres-and-wine reception for international press - all for the chess equivalent of Michael Jordan sitting down for a game of Sega NBA 2K3.
I think the artificial intelligence of Deep Junior is just slightly above that of Sega's NBA 2K3, but I could be mistaken.
Regardless, I'm getting pretty excited about this next match between Garry Kasparov (whose Web site has gone down, apparently) and Deep Junior. I'll be watching the matches, despite the company's slightly idiotic browser check (it catches Galeon 1.2.6 compiled against Mozilla 1.1 as too old). Their Flash application to play the games in realtime sounds very cool.
I didn't have coffee this morning, in hopes of eventually getting rid of the addiction. Maybe tomorrow will be easier....
The issue of women in computing has come up again. I guess I don't see "gender equality" as a goal we all must set for ourselves. That's not to say that women shouldn't feel welcome, as often seems to be the case. Just remember: If you know your shit, you aren't going to take crap from any of the "pale, photophobic potbellied stick men". Likewise, males who don't know their shit will miss the cut.