Monthly Archives: January 2008

[Edit 2/1/08: This has been taken down. Link below now leads to somebody else's posting of the pic. Too bad.] Just awesome. See the whole Flickr set. I could lay down some pseudo-intellectual crap about mash-ups and the convergence of … Continue reading →

I love open source stuff. Who can argue with free? And with the idea that a community of users can work on something they love and make it good and, in some cases, better than a corporate version. Good stuff. … Continue reading →

This looks awesome. Video below. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsTqspnvAaI[/youtube] The first version is cool… Deluxe looks like a hoot-and-a-half.

Hey! It’s been at least a year since I coined a new, ridiculous term. So here it is: O-Cubes (as in O’s-to-the-third): Objective Oriented Objects. As per usual with the new term coinage, the aether fairly rings with the sound … Continue reading →

I’m watching the 2nd season of “24″ on DVD. I watched the first season recently, my wife having given me the two boxed sets for Christmas. For any of you who don’t know, it’s basically TV-crack.  If you watch the … Continue reading →

So, I sat down to read to my son last night. And in getting comfortable in a low chair, I start to make the old man noises. “Er… Umph… Mggg…” etc. But, for whatever reason, I ended with a hearty, … Continue reading →

“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?” – H.M. Warner (Warner Brothers), 1927 Let’s agree on one thing: different is different. Fine. That’s pretty straightforward. But to say something is better or worse — without giving some context — … Continue reading →

So, when my Dad was my age (early 40′s), and I was a teenager, he’d embarrass the heck out of me by wearing a pith helmet while mowing the front lawn. Yes. A pith helmet. He had it left over … Continue reading →

Ars Technica has a recent post featuring a study where “distractions” are blamed for US $650 billion a year in lost productivity in the United States. Intel’s Nathan Zeldes is quoted as saying,”…the impact of information overload on each knowledge … Continue reading →

I go back and read W.B. Yeats now and then. His stuff exemplifies a term that I’ve grown to love; creepy-cool. I recently read this by him: The Dolls A DOLL in the doll-maker’s house Looks at the cradle and … Continue reading →