Sunday, December 09, 2007

Burn the Kindle

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Not the books mind you. Just the Kindle. Virtually, since we don't need toxic smoke. dougscrptr : ... If you are a Macintosh user, you n...
Saturday, December 08, 2007

Resisting the temptation of web services

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It's so appealing to move software to a web services remote hosting model. I lived through that era in the 90s. Among other things, we d...
Thursday, December 06, 2007

CIA Torture tapes destroyed

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The CIA videotaped their torture sessions, now they've destroyed the tapes . Evidently they are unsure that the GOP will win in 2008. Th...

Indentured servitude in the modern world -- the noncompete

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My employer can fire me at any time. That's fine, I can also leave at any time. Except, I theoretically can't work after I leave, b...

The only kind of change management that works

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At least outside of a tyranny: Life as a Healthcare CIO: Leading Change ...My decade of experience executing change suggests that Kotter was...

Freedom requires religion

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So atheists can't be free, but Wiccans can? Romney: President needs prayers of people of all faiths - CNN.com : " ... Romney said r...
Tuesday, December 04, 2007

The thirty five year slowdown

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In the past 35 years America has become vastly more wealthy. Krugman, DeLong and Reich tell us that wealth has not gone to the middle class:...

Software comments: quality and metaphor

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My paternal grandfather was a railway man. In those days lots of people were. He must have had opinions about how to run a train, but he did...

Google Street View in Saint Paul, Minnesota?

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This is odd . Google Street View ( more here ) is Google's amazing and controversial photographic reconstruction of street level detail...

Pay phones join tape reels and broadcast TV

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I'm surprised there are still a million pay phones around: Pay phones? Yeah, I’ve seen them in old movies : Good Morning Silicon Valley ...
Monday, December 03, 2007

Gmail feature request: the ability to edit subject lines

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I added this feature request to Gmail suggestions today: Gmail Suggestion Ability to edit subject lines. One of the most powerful features o...
Sunday, December 02, 2007

Google Docs has no clothes

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My earliest posts on Google Docs (nee Writely), written in 2006, are here and here . Back then I thought we'd see Writely technology mo...

Google Sites to Launch Next Year

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Very good news from Google Operating System. It's been obvious for over a year that Google's Page Creator was in maintenance mode. J...

Preventing anorexia: are these traits predictive?

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A very small, and possibly completely misleading study, suggests some personality traits associated with anorexia - and probably with succes...
Saturday, December 01, 2007

Children of the roaring 20s

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Crooked Timber sent me to a 1957 article in the Atlantic monthly by Nora Johnson, who's book was later turned into an early Peter Seller...