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A good article in the New York Times Magazine about the so-called ‘ambient awareness’ phenomenon: > “Social scientists have a name for this sort of incessant online contact. They call it “ambient awareness.” It is, they say, very much ...
Read more →Gizmodo shows the first ad, and even though I love Jerry and like Bill, it, indeed, makes no sense. Maybe I am just to literal minded.
The quote below is from this post from ReadWriteWeb > While we are certainly seeing more and more examples of products being given away for free, it is **not necessarily a good thin...
Read more →I read the New York Times, and magazines like The Atlantic and The New Yorker, and web sites like Salon. Each of these, IMO are relatively thoughtful and interesting and a good way to keep...
Read more →An interesting article from Bruce Schneier about why he believes that TSA requirement of photo IDs is a waste of time: > “The problem is that it is unverified passenger names that get checked against the no-fly list. At security checkpoints, the TSA just matches IDs to whatever is printed on the boa...
Read more →(updated at 12:08pm Sept 2) > “In a posting on a company site Monday, Google indicated that a version of the software, called Chrome, would be available for download on Tuesday. It said the software is designed to make it faster to browse the Web and easier to run applications without downloading ...
Read more →I’ve written about some of the considerations that go into the choice between physical infrastructure and new SAAS services such as Amazon’s S3 and EC2. I also covered [why the fact that you are comfortable relying on a hosting provider for rack mounted...
Read more →Who said “your TSA don’t dance and your USPTO don’t rock and roll?” (One free copy of BlogBridge for all of you who get the reference without using Wikipedia) Here are two cool examples. First up, the TSA ([Transportation Security Administration) now has a blog that seems to be much more than a ...
Read more →From TimesOnline, a good reminder to not forget that we do live in a USA bubble sometimes, and don’t pay enough attention to the rest of the world: “A little over two decades later, Arkady Volozh is the chief executive and one of the founders of Yandex, Russia’...
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Take a look at that very weird looking Mac menu. I didn’t (knowingly) do anything to get it and yet every time I launch a new application it’s menus are corrupted that way. All of its menus, and with fancy animated graphics. Anyone know what’s going on? I just told someone today that Mac’s NEVER have viruses!
On a project I worked on recently, I asked myself whether I should make one or more of Amazon’s awesome web services (AWS – Awesome Web Services) a mission critical part of the infrastructure of the product. I wrote yesterday about the [considerations that go into deciding to rely on services like A...
Read more →I wonder about this. Why is it considered a slur to use Democrat as an adjective? For example, “The Democrat plan is to …” vs. “The Democratic plan is to…” Oddly enough, do my ear or my mind, Democrat does sound harsh and evil, but I can’t put my finger on why. Just wondering…
Jason Calcanis has stopped blogging and instead is doing an email only mailing list(yes, how 1999 of him.) I had heard about it but recently got me a copy of his most recent missive. Interesting, opinion...
Read more →I don’t know why it don’t. I don’t know why the error message doesn’t just say: “Hey dope, Ruby has no ++ operator” Originally posted on Apr 13, 2007. Reprinted courtesy of ReRuns plug-in.
Apple always, or almost always, thinks through the user interface carefully and includes all kinds of deft and elegant touches that delight and amaze users. Not always though. Sometimes there’s a crazy quilt of magic and cleverness that is totally baffling. Originally posted on Feb 15, 2008. Reprinted courtesy of ReRuns plug-in.
Came across this interesting article. You may agree or not, but it’s definitely interesting: > “So now the process can be fully diagrammed, and the cast of characters is stunning. The torture system involves the operations division of the CIA on the implementation side. They rely heavily on contractors, it seems, in torturing people. And a special role is apparently played by a couple of psychologists. (from Harper’s Magazine) p.s. Happy Valentine’s Day 🙂 Originally posted on Feb 14, 2008. Reprinted courtesy of ReRuns plug-in.
Check out the latest summary of amazing featsby BlogBridge. I don’t want to be too cheeky, but there are some pretty cool things that you get from BlogBridge (for free) that you can’t get anywhere else. BlogBridge is definitely a serious tool which is why I bit my tongue and marked this post ‘geeky’ but really it’s also, as you know, my labor of love, so I can’t resist showing it off. Hope you take a moment to try it! Originally posted on Sep 25, 2007. Reprinted courtesy of ReRuns plug-in.
Here is a full article written by Jeremy Wagstaff… > Blind to Bargains If We Won’t Pay for Software, People Won’t Write It April 20, 2007 Computers would be nothing without programs to run on them, so why do we spend so much time drooling over our hardware — physical bits and pieces — and so little...
Read more →After an interesting comment on my previous post on Electric Cars topic, “Who Killed the Electric Car” suddenly I am seeing stuff about this top...
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