NY Times: SBC Said to Be in Talks to Buy AT&T. A deal, if reached, would be the final chapter in the 120-year history of AT&T, the first technological giant of the modern age and the original model for telecommunications companies worldwide. A deal would be a reunion of sorts, putting back together some of […]
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Things to say when you are losing a tech argument
1 That won’t scale.
2 That’s been proven to be O(N^2) and we need a solution that’s O(NlogN).
3 There are, of course, various export limitations on that technology.
4 The syntax is idiosyncratic.
5 Trying to build a team behind that technology would be a staffing nightmare.
6 That […]
I hope, anyway.
To all those who in the last couple of months may have legitimately attempted to post comments and got rather brashly denied, I profusely apologize for not properly testing and configuring the comment-spam filter software I installed and stupidly assumed would “just work” with little modification. I should know better.
Argh.
I’ve now tested […]
A day late, but nonetheless here it is…
The Command Post - Global Recon - Nineteen Years Ago Today - Where Were You?
On January 28, 1986, the 25th Space Shuttle mission (STS-51L) ended in tragedy 73 seconds after launch; the Challenger Orbiter was destroyed and its seven-member crew killed.
I was in 9th grade (high school) […]
I’m having George Carlin flashbacks, what with ‘fuck’ or some derivative thereof being every other word. Besides that, the guy makes some good points. “Caustic” is definitely apropos.
Found this via Scoble – CausticTech has a rant that every techie should read and take to heart. Reading it is cathartic — I am sure […]
Another one bites the dust. Could we get more paranoid? Don’t answer that.
Jeremy C. Wright of Ensight was just fired from his job for blogging:
But, they fired me.
My Posts About Work
What did they fire me for? This post:
Getting to surf the web for 3 hours while being paid: Priceless.
Getting to blog for […]
A cool story. Reminds me of my days on BITnet and xyzzy in college.
Xeni Jardin:
On John Perry Barlow’s blog today, this account of a random human connection by VoIP — testament to how technology can make this an oddly intimate planet.
I was sitting at my desk in New York on Wednesday night, writing a […]
This is an excellent post with a lot of informative comments as well. Personally, for years I’ve known there was a difference in thought process between typing and writing: when I want to write poetry or anything drawn from the depths of emotion, reflection, and introspection, I handwrite; when I want to write and […]
Cool idea. I’m not sure how much it adds to the whole kinesthetic feedback thing but it probably can’t hurt.
Fontifier - Your own handwriting on your computer!
Fontifier lets you use your own handwriting for the text you write on your computer.
It turns a scanned sample of your handwriting into a handwriting font that you […]
Kathy’s recent post, Creating Passionate Renters got me thinking about the whole 180 thing. And then today, I saw this terrific post on 43folders.com: Patching your personal suck. I realized there a couple of different ways of looking at the whole “I don’t want to suck” thing with 180 in mind: there’s the […]
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Inside Firefox - The Inside Track on Firefox Development
Every few months a new worm makes the rounds, Sobig, Sober (the 77KB worm which ultimately destroyed my email account) and others. These worms usually travel using Microsoft Outlook as the hook onto people’s systems. Creating an email with an attachment that appears inocuous and beckons […]
Finally, and thanks to a number of Stardock programs, I have no more icons on my desktop (technically, they’re hidden).
Instead, there are “sliding drawer” tabs from the left side of the screen. Each drawer is a category of my own devising and contains the icons that would typically be somewhere on my desktop… if […]
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Creating Passionate Users: Most classroom learning sucks
The most depressing result of Skyler’s transition to public school was when she came home one day a few weeks into her 7th grade, and said, “In real school, they don’t seem to like it when you question the teacher…” She was horrified to be labeled somewhat of […]
Filmmakers know that the feeling the audience leaves with has a huge impact on the movie’s success. It’s what the audience remembers, and determines how (and whether) they talk about the movie to others. When filmmakers do audience testing, they’re trying to get the ending right, and that’s why usually the best music of the […]
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Circadiana: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep (But Were Too Afraid To Ask)
Until not long ago, just about until electricity became ubiquitous, humans used to have a sleep pattern quite different from what we consider “normal” today. At dusk you go to sleep, at some point in the middle of the night […]
Salon.com Technology | Turmoil in blogland
Publishing tool LiveJournal nurtures a dazzling array of unorthodox subcultures. But will diversity continue to flourish in the wake of its purchase by blogging start-up Six Apart?
National Business Review (NBR) - Business, News, Arts, Media, Share Market & More
While the United Nations appears to be adept at having meetings, the organisation is hopeless on the ground say career foreign service officers in tsunami-affected regions.
As news media are increasingly dominated by footage of US, Australian and regional military forces actually delivering aid […]