January 21st, 2008
I’ve been a loyal Apple fan since 1985, and have bought at least one of almost every new computer they’ve produced — especially the MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops, which first arrived on the scene around 1993. So I was as excited and titillated by the rumors of the MacBook Air as everyone else during [...]
January 19th, 2008
Every couple of years, my friend Tom DeMarco turns the computing world upside down with a new book. Sometimes he writes alone (see, for example, Slack: getting past burnout, busywork, and the myth of total efficiency and The Deadline: a novel about project management). Often, he writes with our mutual friend and colleague, Tim Lister [...]
January 17th, 2008
Michael Krigsman, a well-known ZDnet blogger, interviewed me on the phone last week for his Naked IT series, and wrote up a summary of the results. I’m not going to summarize his summary, other than to reassure you that I wasn’t naked in the interview. It’s easier to just point you to it — click [...]
January 11th, 2008
I’ve written various blog postings on the subject of “Good enough” (see, for example, this recent post about the “good enough” nature of Twitter, and this somewhat older one of a more general nature), but it occurred to me that I should acknowledge the opposite end of the spectrum: bad enough.
When a software product [...]
January 10th, 2008
I got an unexpected email message from Apple yesterday, informing me that Microsoft’s Office 2008 product was available for “pre-order”; it will be officially released at next week’s MacWorld, along with a slew of other hardware and software products.
Well, it’s been four years since we’ve seen a new version of Word, Excel, and Powerpoint for [...]
January 9th, 2008
I’m reading an interesting book that’s been on my “to-read” list for quite a while: Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind: moving from the information age to the conceptual age. Because the book was published in the spring of 2005, some of its ideas seem a little dated by now — e.g., Pink’s assertion that [...]
January 7th, 2008
I noticed a curious statistic today: my Twitter network is almost three times larger than my Dopplr network. Inquiring minds want to know: how could that be?
Let’s ignore a couple of perfectly reasonable, but uninteresting, possible explanations. Maybe the “sample size” of my networks is so small that any difference between the two is statistically [...]
