March 30th, 2008
Here are a couple of interesting statistics: the current version of this blog was launched on April12, 2006 — which means it’s almost exactly two years old. During that time, I’ve posted 404 blog entries, not counting this one.
Meanwhile, I began using the Twitter “micro-blogging” site sometime in October, 2007 — which means I’ve been […]
March 28th, 2008
I gave a presentation at the “Software Best Practices” conference in Orlando yesterday on the topic of “Moving Beyond SEI-CMM level one.” Of course, you had to actually be there to hear all of the subtle jokes, sly innuendos, and double-entendres … but if you’d just like to see the presentation itself, you can […]
March 14th, 2008
Shortly after I graduated from MIT in the mid-1960s, the Cambridge/Boston geek community was intrigued by the announcement of a computer program called Eliza, developed by MIT computer science professor Joseph Weizenbaum. I never had the pleasure of taking any courses from Professor Weizenbaum while I was in college, but I was fascinated by the […]
March 12th, 2008
The home page on my web browser displays news headlines from the Associated Press, the New York Times, and CNN — as well as technology-related headlines from various publications. I thought it was interesting to see how the collection of 20 headlines from the three serious “publishers” of news fell into categories:
4 headlines related to […]
March 11th, 2008
If you’re old enough to have conscious memories of the 1980s, then you probably have fond memories of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video — regardless of what you thought of the artist, either then or now. Like so many things today, it’s available (in several different versions and formats) on YouTube. Here’s a 9-minute version that […]
March 9th, 2008
It occurred to me, sometime this afternoon, that it would be really cool if I could show a live, real-time display of incoming Twitter messages during some presentations that I’m going to be giving about Web 2.0 technologies in Moscow and Rome this spring. I suspect that some of this would be so new, for […]
March 8th, 2008
Daylight Savings Time is arriving in a couple of hours — and like millions of people throughout the U.S. (and any other part of the world affected by our bizarre behavior regarding time), that means changing dozens of different clocks all through the household. Aside from being an annoyance, this semi-annual experience has alerted me […]
March 6th, 2008
When it comes to the iPhone, I’ll admit that I’m impatient, greedy, and also somewhat naive: I was hoping, for example, that Steve Jobs would announce today that (a) he’s shipping the full Software Development Kit (SDK), but also (b) at least one commercial-grade 3rd-party product, developed with that SDK, was shipping today. Even if […]
March 6th, 2008
I was alerted to this great little tutorial about Twitter by Alex de Carvalho … who, naturally, told all of his “followers” about it on Twitter. Anyway, if you’re one of those people still wondering why so many of us are making a fuss about Twitter, watch this little 2.5 minute video:
March 5th, 2008
My friend Luis Suarez twittered the following message to his army of 527 “followers” this morning:
Hummm did I say how much I *loathe* PowerPoint?!?!?! Aaarrrrggggghhhhh stupid thing would not save changes in a preso I’m working on!! :-//
I was focusing on some other part of my computer screen at the time, on the other side […]
