Iran is Next. This stuff's getting scarey. Not happy.
Iran is Next. This stuff's getting scarey. Not happy.
Just watched a little comedy clip from the beeb called Ipod World. Sends up the silliness of making everything ipod-like. Loved it.
Just watched a little comedy clip from the beeb called Ipod World. Sends up the silliness of making everything ipod-like. Loved it.
Okay, here's a photo that I can't get out of my head! :)
Okay, here's a photo that I can't get out of my head! :)
How did we find ourselves living in a bad novel? indeed. Paul Krugman's NY Times piece paints outlandish elements of what would be a spectacularly bad novel. All of which are true of our current times. Bizzarre. But true.
How did we find ourselves living in a bad novel? indeed. Paul Krugman's NY Times piece paints outlandish elements of what would be a spectacularly bad novel. All of which are true of our current times. Bizzarre. But true.
Via the AP - Gates endures computer crash during CES keynote speech
( quiet chuckles :) )
"During a demonstration of digital photography with a soon-to-be-released Nikon camera, a Windows Media Center PC froze and wouldn't respond to Gates' pushing of the remote control."
( quiet chuckles :) )
Via the AP - Gates endures computer crash during CES keynote speech
( quiet chuckles :) )
"During a demonstration of digital photography with a soon-to-be-released Nikon camera, a Windows Media Center PC froze and wouldn't respond to Gates' pushing of the remote control."
( quiet chuckles :) )
Just discovered MathWorld from a post by Kirby Urner on the Python Edu-Siq mailing list. MathWorld is an incredibly powerful resource for Math thought and learning. Makes sense coming from Wolfram the company behind Mathematica. Still, commercial leverage aside, highly recommended.
Just discovered MathWorld from a post by Kirby Urner on the Python Edu-Siq mailing list. MathWorld is an incredibly powerful resource for Math thought and learning. Makes sense coming from Wolfram the company behind Mathematica. Still, commercial leverage aside, highly recommended.
Really enjoyed watching the keynote video from CES with Conan O'Brien intreviewing Bill Gates and really enjoyed the repeated windows crashes happening throughout. My favorite line : 
"I got so drunk that I woke up with a hooker, Bill got so drunk he woke up with an Apple computer."-- Conan, recounting his Vegas late night with Bill.
Really enjoyed watching the keynote video from CES with Conan O'Brien intreviewing Bill Gates and really enjoyed the repeated windows crashes happening throughout. My favorite line :
"I got so drunk that I woke up with a hooker, Bill got so drunk he woke up with an Apple computer."-- Conan, recounting his Vegas late night with Bill.
The Economist has a story titled Meritocracy in America that asks "Whatever happened to the belief that any American could get to the top?"
This is a central issue for me, since it's been a real focus for me, a dream in many ways, to help capable workers to climb their way out of dead-end careers and into software development. swdev.org is an artifact of that effort. Time, the CallPrint Fiasco and changing demand in software has deeply discouraged those dreams. The Economist Story taps some of the issues surrounding our loss of a true Meritocracy. Give it a read!
This is a central issue for me, since it's been a real focus for me, a dream in many ways, to help capable workers to climb their way out of dead-end careers and into software development. swdev.org is an artifact of that effort. Time, the CallPrint Fiasco and changing demand in software has deeply discouraged those dreams. The Economist Story taps some of the issues surrounding our loss of a true Meritocracy. Give it a read!
The Economist has a story titled Meritocracy in America that asks "Whatever happened to the belief that any American could get to the top?"
This is a central issue for me, since it's been a real focus for me, a dream in many ways, to help capable workers to climb their way out of dead-end careers and into software development. swdev.org is an artifact of that effort. Time, the CallPrint Fiasco and changing demand in software has deeply discouraged those dreams. The Economist Story taps some of the issues surrounding our loss of a true Meritocracy. Give it a read!
This is a central issue for me, since it's been a real focus for me, a dream in many ways, to help capable workers to climb their way out of dead-end careers and into software development. swdev.org is an artifact of that effort. Time, the CallPrint Fiasco and changing demand in software has deeply discouraged those dreams. The Economist Story taps some of the issues surrounding our loss of a true Meritocracy. Give it a read!
Bill Gates: Free Culture advocates = Commies: "In an interview on news.com, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates described free culture advocates as a 'modern-day sort of communists.' Well now."
[via Boing Boing]
[via Boing Boing]
Bill Gates: Free Culture advocates = Commies: "In an interview on news.com, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates described free culture advocates as a 'modern-day sort of communists.' Well now."
[via Boing Boing]
[via Boing Boing]
If you haven't already read Neal Stephenson's "In the Beginning was the Command Line", I consider it a MUST read at several levels. The history of user interfaces aspect alone is killer and his analogies are pretty dead on.
Well, someone has come along and annotated the whole thing to bring it into line with the current technology environment.
The Command Line In 2004
Highly Recommend.
Well, someone has come along and annotated the whole thing to bring it into line with the current technology environment.
The Command Line In 2004
Highly Recommend.
If you haven't already read Neal Stephenson's "In the Beginning was the Command Line", I consider it a MUST read at several levels. The history of user interfaces aspect alone is killer and his analogies are pretty dead on.
Well, someone has come along and annotated the whole thing to bring it into line with the current technology environment.
The Command Line In 2004
Highly Recommend.
Well, someone has come along and annotated the whole thing to bring it into line with the current technology environment.
The Command Line In 2004
Highly Recommend.