[this is part two of my article of complexity. here is part 1the devil is in the details ( Read more... )

i usually work under the low-grade assumption that the world is changing really fast. i watch the trends and ideas flowing out of the fact that the world is becomming more connected, and i see the effect that it both has today and the dramatic effect it will have in the future ( Read more... )

a couple of days ago i finished the book full house. i selected this book because it was at the top of the how to save the world reading list. (and the top of the short list too.) i'll probably write a couple more entries about this book, as there was a lot of good material. here is the overview ( Read more... )

i've been reading a book titled "full house." i'll give an actual review once i'm finished, but as i read this weekend, i had a few aha! moments that are currently ammusing me this morning ( Read more... )

one of the sites on my daily reading list is called freshmeat. i've had many people ask me if that was a work-safe link, and yes it is. it is a wall board that announces new and updated software projects for unix operating systems. i think there are similiar sites for windows that catalog shareware programs for that platform ( Read more... )

in general, i spend more time being upset with computer software than happy with it. you could sum it up with this joke (with appologies to fish everywhere):

give a man a program, you'll frustrate him for a day.
teach a man to program, and you'll frustrate him the rest of his life.

all software essentially sucks. it is burdened by its own ( Read more... )

waiting for the bus is never fun. it is either too hot, cold, muggy, windy, something. the shelter overhanging the seat usually made it worse. except today, since it was about to rain ( Read more... )

the second book i read while traveling is called leonardo's laptop. the back cover asked with dubious breathlessness: "what kind of laptop would leonardo davinci design?" the author used this byline to discus a range of computer interface issues. like most authors writing about this topic, he takes interface developers to task for failing to ( Read more... )