SC has been deluged since last Monday with far too much work, and has been pulling more 18-hour days than are reasonable for any human being to have. Today is a big deadline for him, after which normal posting can resume, but he has to interrupt the present brief hiatus for some welcome personal news.
When your host first started this blog, his biography included a line about having one patent, with another pending. Today, he received notice from a former coworker, a key contributor to the search engine SC worked on back in the period of 1999-2001, that he can drop the line about "pending". Busch, et al., filed on October 27, 2000, was awarded on April 11, 2006. SC will have more to say about the technology later, but suffice it to say, this has been a long time coming, and it's nice to finally have it.
congratulations!
Posted by: shudder | April 14, 2006 at 09:06 PM
Yes indeed, congratulations.
Posted by: EFL Geek | April 15, 2006 at 07:32 PM
To SC: Congratulations!
To the Patent Office: It's about time!!!
Posted by: Mrs. SC | April 16, 2006 at 11:35 AM