2004's Greatest Hits

As a substitute for writing a new post, here's my list of the best of 2004:

• Notes towards Memoirs of a Bit Player
• More Memoir: Chemistry for Software Engineers
• Tall latte with no volatile organic compounds, please.
• Instant Immortality
  In fact, this has been widely quoted.
• Poor girl. But now we can see you in the dark!
  Tropicana lived for 30 more (mostly good) months.
• VC Funded Startups (a song)
• The Three Laws of Security
• The Koan of Lazy Evaluation
• Burn the disk packs!