May 1st, 2008
Almost exactly a month ago, I blogged about “blogging vs. micro-blogging“. I now have a couple more pieces of data, which I think confirm the points I made in that first blog.
During the past month, I’ve written approximately 450 short “micro-blog” messages on Twitter; that works out to approximately 15 “tweets” a day. During the […]
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 […]
April 25th, 2008
I’m giving a presentation on “User reactions to XP/Agile development” to the Agile Development group in Moscow this evening. You’ve got to actually be there (wherever “there” is; hopefully I’ll find out in time!) to hear the additional commentary, comments, jokes, and explanations. But if you’d like to download the 2.7-megabyte PDF file for the […]
April 14th, 2008
I’ll be in Detroit on Tuesday, April 15th, giving a presentation on “The Politics of Metrics” at the “Software Best Practices” conference. If you’re not there in person, you’ll miss all of the clever jokes, subtle explanations, question-answer dialogue, etc.; but you can download the 1.5-megabyte PDF version of the presentation by clicking on the […]
April 13th, 2008
Here’s an intriguing and provocative view of what “Web 2.0″ is all about…
April 12th, 2008
A couple months ago, I posted a long blog about the many reasons I had decided to forego the temptation to order Apple’s new MacBook Air. Too slow, too limited, missing ports and PC card slots, blah blah blah …
… and yet … and yet … I couldn’t help being tempted every time I saw […]
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 […]
