October 12th, 2007
For those who say they’d love to see An Inconvenient Truth (now that Al Gore has won the Nobel Peace Prize), but it’s no longer in movie theaters: click here to buy the DVD from Amazon for $19.99. And for those who say they’re not sure which “authority” to trust on the topic, how about [...]
October 12th, 2007
About an hour ago, the Nobel Committee announced that Al Gore is the recipient for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, largely because of his efforts to increase awareness of the global warming problem — based at least partly on his film, An Inconvenient Truth. I have family members who haven’t bothered seeing the movie yet, [...]
October 11th, 2007
I’ll be giving a presentation on the “top 10 software engineering concepts” at a software best-practices seminar in Detroit today; for more details about this and future seminars (including, for example, Jacksonville next week, and Austin next month), click here. If you’d like to download a 15.9-megabyte PDF of the one-page mind-map for the presentation, [...]
October 10th, 2007
It’s time for a few more updates to my “ugly Betty” Web 2.0 presentation; as usual, you can view (and collaboratively edit) the Google Docs presentation document, by clicking here; or you can download the 18-megabyte PDF version by clicking here. Here’s a summary of what I’ve added and changed: On page 6, I changed [...]
October 10th, 2007
I was surprised this morning to discover that two of the Twitterers that I started “following” last night (i.e., receiving updates about their activities on my cell phone, whenever they post something) are now following me. Are they just being polite? Do they really care what I’m doing? For that matter, what am I doing? [...]
October 9th, 2007
I’ve been following the discussions and debates about Twitter for quite a while now, and I set up an account about six months ago. However, I never actually used it — so telling someone that I “understand” Twitter is sort of like telling my wife that I understand what childbirth is all about. Not that [...]
October 8th, 2007
I’ve added a few items to my “ugly Betty” Web 2.0 presentation. As usual, you can access it as a sharable Google Docs presentation by clicking here; or you can download the far more beautiful 17.4-megabyte PDF version by clicking here. Here’s what I’ve added to the material: On page 38: I added a bullet [...]
October 7th, 2007
I spent some time this evening touching up, reformatting, and generally “prettifying” my “Ugly Betty” Google Docs presentation on Web 2.0, which you can link to by clicking here. No changes to the content at this point; a few interesting articles and blog postings have appeared in the last couple days, but I think I’ll [...]
October 6th, 2007
I have a confession: I stopped in at the T-Mobile phone store yesterday, to see if any of the new Blackberry products were sufficiently sexy to lure me away from my iPhone. And I spent an hour on the ATT Wireless web site this evening, checking to see if any of the new Samsung, Nokia, [...]
October 6th, 2007
If you’ve been watching my blog on a full-time basis for the past 24 hours (what? you don’t watch my blog full-time?), you may have noticed a couple of photographs that got uploaded briefly as stand-alone blog postings, and then deleted. And it may happen again, so I thought I would explain what’s going on. [...]
