Gordon's Notes

I've been subscribing to Gwynne Dyer's stubbornly archaic article distribution system via ChangeDetection.com and Page2RSS . Today...

Today's news makes me nostalgic for the modest worldwide fraud of JK Publications et al ... IdentityBlog - Digital Identity, Privacy,...

In March of this year I wondered if the rise in oil prices were rational speculation or speculative bubble. I decided that six months would ...

FSJ has some of the best IT industry commentary around -- hidden within the amusing facade of a caricature of Apple's Steve Jobs. Today ...

Microsoft's Guardian Angel is yet more proof that our patent laws are completely and utterly insane. As if we needed more proof. On the ...

Humans, to the eye, are not so diverse. The vast majority have, or once had, four limbs, two eyes, one head. Most rely heavily on vision. So...

Paul Krugman has been campaigning for Hillary Clinton. That's ok, there are far worse candidates for the presidency -- McCain for exampl...

Morford of the Chronicle, a master of colorful rhetoric, swings at a very fat pitch ... You and your puny salary / You think a $100K sa...

[See a significant update below my post. The shows are still available, for now, on the primary IOT site.] Increasingly, episodes of the BBC...

Sprint is going to spend $100 million to promote their iPhone killer - the Samsung "Instinct" . Details at the link. Briefly, Sp...

Google has graphed the growth of UTF-8 unicode on the web . This year Unicode use passed the extended ASCII used to cover the English langua...

The survivors who made it out are writing their books. A Prison of Shame, and It’s Ours - Nicholas Kristoff - New York Times ...When I start...

I like Gail Collins. Indiana Holiday - New York Times This all started with John McCain, who proposed suspending the 18.4-cent-per-gallon fe...

Did Apple always intend for the iPhone to be a development platform, or were they forced to change their mind? A well regarded Piper Jaffr...

Spolasky thinks the Microsoft Live Mesh idea is dumb, that Microsoft is again trying to solve an insanely hard problem nobody cares about -...