Thursday, May 15, 2003 The Bug I read a galley of The Bug , thanks to Sumana, and on Wednesday I went with Will to hear Ellen Ullman read from it at City Lights. In answering questions, she revealed that the bug described in the book was a real bug in a real system, that it was a bug she herself had encountered as a programmer. I said "Ethan Levin's name is very phonetically similar to yours -- it would be a good soundex match." (This turns out not to be clearly right -- I ran them both thro... [excerpted by twURL]

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