Archive for August, 2006

I just paid to get email from a spammer!

Monday, August 28th, 2006

I got spam earlier today, sent to the address keith dash adword at stattenfield.org except that you replace the dash with ‘-‘ and the at with ‘@’, like you’d expect.  I don’t want to put the address in my blog because I don’t want spammers to harvest it. That email address appears, as near as […]

My friend won second place at the California State Fair

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Specifically, in the “Non-refrigerated pastries” division. Who knew there even was a “non-refrigerated pastries” division? http://www.bigfun.org/fair/pdfs/competitions/ca_kitchen/pie_pastry_confection_results.pdf on page 6, “Peter Bickford”, San Jose, California. The pity is that now we’ll never get him to shut up. 🙂

How I find out I’ve been awarded a patent

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

I’ve applied for a couple patents, and two of them have actually been granted. For the one a couple days ago, a friend of mine at a conference told me that I’d been awarded a patent the same day it was granted, because he’d read an analysis-type article about it on someone’s blog: Next Wave: […]

The Vast stattenfield web empire!

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

It’s vitally important to have a lot of domain names, because then you can put up a bunch of different Web 2.0 sites on them and get the IPO money and retire rich, rich, rich! So, for reference, here’s the Stattenfield Web Empire: keithexplains.com — My access tv show. I keep plugging it, but nobody […]

There’s must be a lot of wrong-atude in wikipedia

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

So, I was the lead engineer for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS 9.1. That meant that I have a pretty good idea about what we tried to do engineering-wise for Mac OS 9, because in a lot of ways I was one of the folks deciding what to do. A couple weeks ago, I […]

Now I get to put “Inventor” after my name again

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

Granted today; someone told me about it here at WWDC. US Patent #7,089,300