May 3rd, 2008
If you’re a Twitter user, you must visit Tweetwheel to have it create a visual representation of your Twitter network — just type “www.tweetwheel.com/yourTwitterID” into your browser, and then sit back and watch it. Here’s mine (which may be impossible to read on the blog display, but is awesome on my 24-inch Apple display:
May 1st, 2008
I’ve uploaded about 150 photographs from my recent trip to St. Petersburg and Moscow. If you’re interested, you can see them here on Flickr.
April 28th, 2008
I returned yesterday from my first visit to Russia — which consisted of a week in St. Petersburg and Moscow — and am struggling to provide some observations and impressions that won’t seem superficial to friends and colleagues in both countries. One reason I’m sensitive about this is that I often meet people in other [...]
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 [...]
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 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 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 [...]
March 4th, 2008
Though I’ve spent my entire professional career, and adult life, in the computer field, there are days when it’s obvious that other things are far more important. Today was such a day: my daughter Jennifer gave birth to a healthy, beautiful baby boy at 4 PM this afternoon. Owen Edward Coffey weighed in at 7 [...]
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 [...]
