March 2nd, 2008
When I was a kid, one of the aphorisms I was taught was “never look a gift horse in the mouth.” Nobody ever gave me a horse, nor did I ever buy one or own one. So I have no idea what I would have seen if I did look a horse — “gift” or […]
February 10th, 2008
It was a big deal in the United States when we lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. Among the many arguments in favor of such a change was that 18 year old citizens could join the army, fight for their country, get a driver’s license, get married, and generally perform all sorts of […]
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 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 […]
December 29th, 2007
My family and I are leaving Sunday morning for a one-week vacation at Club Med. We’ll probably have Internet access, but I don’t plan on blogging while I’m there … partly because I think most other people are going to be focusing on their own New Year’s celebrations, but mostly because I really would like […]
December 27th, 2007
I’ve been slowly accumulating new Web 2.0 material during the past month, and it’s time for an update. As usual, you can access the presentation in a variety of formats, although I haven’t yet had time to upload the “ugly Betty” version to Google Apps. For now, you can view it, and/or download it, from […]
December 23rd, 2007
Wow.
If you’ve ever lived in Manhattan, if you’ve ever visited Manhattan, if you’ve ever seen pictures of Manhattan, or even if you’ve only heard of Manhattan, you’ve got to see this movie. Whether or not you’re a Will Smith fan, whether or not you like science fiction movies, whether or not you read the 1954 […]
December 22nd, 2007
… next thing I remember, I am walkin’ down the street
I’m feeling all right, I’m with my boys, I’m with my troops, yeah …
Paul Simon, “Late in the Evening“
Every time I think of my Twitter network, I can’t help recalling the phrase “with my troops, yeah” from the Paul Simon song, Late in the Evening […]
December 21st, 2007
A couple weeks ago, I blogged about an initiative that I was just beginning to carry out: uploading and archiving my collection of photographs onto Flickr. I’ve now finished the first “pass” of that project: roughly 13,277 photos are now online, organized into roughly 425 albums that record the activities of five generations of my […]
