Ok, that’s my own curious headline for this interesting article in the New York Times: > “What, after all, is a more recognizable symbol of the capriciousness of life than a deck of cards, out of which your fate is randomly dealt? And yet here the deck icon is only superficial. At heart it’s not a random-card generator but the opposite: a highly wrought program with a memory, an algorithm and a mandate to keep children in the game. An app posing as a spatiotemporal object.” (fromThe New York Times)
The other day I wrote a post where I mentioned Google’s App Inventor, and I mentioned it with some skepticism. Today, a column in the [New York Times that covers Google’s App Inventor](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/technology/personaltec...
Check this link out, there are lots of really fun drawings. The artists take a little kid’s drawing and turns it into something amazing. Here’s a taste: Originally posted on May 04, 2007. Reprinted courtesy of ReRuns plug-in.
I think I might be entering a new phase in my music listening. I listen to a ton of music, on my iPhone, on my computer, in my car, all the time. And up to now it’s always been downloaded (purchased) music that I organize manually within iTunes. From time to time I’ve had subscriptions to [eMusic](...
Check this post The flatfooted learning society from Joho the Blog: > But, I am a flatfooted “programmer” and always will be. I have limitations that would have kept me from ever b...
Google leaves products in Beta forever, they say. Not Google Wave. They actually announced Wave’s impending cancellation. > “But despite these wins, and numerous loyal fans, Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked....
It seems like nowadays, to be a cool, 21st century kind of application, you need to allow me to use my facebook, or google, or yahoo, or twitter, or … account to access a site. Ok, sounds like a fine idea, don’t you think? Here’s the problem. I go to one of the zillions of sites out there that I use, and it asks me to log in. Now, not only do I have to remember a username / email, a password, but I also have to remember if I used Google, Facebook, OpenId, or whatnot, to get in. I guess I should set a policy for myself to never use anything other than the built in username/password. That’s probably a better policy for security as well.
I never realized this and I am surprised that BlackBerry and Research In Motion advertising have not made a big deal out of it. According to this article [BlackBerry communications travel over a highly encrypted channel, not the open internet](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/business/global/02berr...
If you are a hardcore blog reader like I am, and like BlogBridge fans are, it’s worth giving a little thought to what this article is saying: > “I read this and thrashed and spluttered like Yosemite Sam for a while before I admitted it: he’s right. It is a self-created p...
There’s a lot of buzz right now about the leaked documents related to the war in Afghanistan. I am not clear myself whether they teach us anything new– they may or may not. Also I have not seen any reports claiming that the...
Now that I’ve been blogging for a while, it’s fun and instructive sometimes to see some of the older stuff that I wrote to see how fast our tech world changes and how I myself change…Everyone loves to beat up on Microsoft’...
An interesting article in the New York Times Magazine today about ‘Strictly Platonic Relationships‘, according to Craigs’ List denizens: > ‘And while they stress their lofty indifferences, the members of the Strictly Platonic crowd are equally passionate about their desire: conversation, conversation, conversation. Live, e-mail, phone, text, chat — platonic people, it seems, want people to talk to.’
This is from my OSX Activity Monitor.app. See how it shows that one process is using 659.9% of the CPU? Well I think I have two cores in this computer, but do I have 7??? I don’t think so…
This didn’t really happen I am sitting on the lawn at the University, talking to a couple of friends. We hear a weird buzzing sound up in the air, and looking up we see an aircraft, flying very low. It looks kind of like an A-30 Warthog, but much much smaller. I guess it might be a radio controlle...
Just wonderin’ — the iPod Shuffle has a really cool feature where a synthesized voice will announce the name of a song over the earphones upon request. Super useful feature on any iPod, right? Then how come is it not available on the far more powerful and expensive iPhone? Is there a technical reason or a marketing reason or some other mysterious reason?
Check out 10 Tools for Distributed Developer Teams(fromMashable!: ** "Every developer and every manager will have his or her preferred tools for working with a distributed team. We’ve rounded up 1...
You can’t have missed the whole General Stanley McChrystal affair, where a decorated general who has spent his career in special operations and has been running the war in Afganistan in a moment of spectacular...
I don’t know yet whether I agree with or disagree with what is said in “REST Security (or lack thereof)” but you have to admit that this metaphor kills: > “Until then, we’ll just continue (asGene Spafford said) using an armored car to deliver between someone living in a cardboard box and someone living on a park bench.” (from 1 Raindrop) (Also check out his follow up post: Part Deux
Originally posted on May 04, 2007. Reprinted courtesy of ReRuns plug-in.