Thursday, March 04, 2010

Reflections on my personal bacterial companions

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I stopped a puck the other day. With my leg. That's what comes with playing against these dad-gum college kids. They don't know thei...

The disappearing signature

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I've never had a very consistent signature, but today Emily noted that it's become a genuine scrawl. Of course this could be a sign ...
Wednesday, March 03, 2010

YouTube needs a pay-per-view solution

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I've not had much use for YouTube, but I do have a son who does better with video than with text. I figured I'd collect selected edu...
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We need translation on Google Reader for Mobile!

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After a hiatus when Google Reader social was broken, I'm back to following shares and blogs that alternate English with Chinese and othe...

Why Apple will lose the Google-Apple war

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The were rumbles about Latitude, but the battle of Google Voice made the Google-Apple war public. Now it's a cliche ... How Apple and G...
Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Calvin, free will and me

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I've had only a nodding acquaintance with Calvinism ( TULIP, via Garrison Keillor ), though I picked up a bit more thanks to George W Bu...
Monday, March 01, 2010

How I discover people to follow - on Google Reader

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Buzz has been a great disappointment . It's not all bad though. Google built a lot of Buzz on the Google Reader Shared Item experiments,...
Sunday, February 28, 2010

Tea is the gateway drug to Militia movement

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The Sepoy mutiny (IOT) is traditionally said to have begun with a rumor that new rifle cartridges, which soldiers had to bite to use, were...

Snitty Apple Console message

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I've been having OS X issues lately, so I've spent time in the Console (yes, the days of full function OSs are limited). I liked thi...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Reflections on friends who vote GOP

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I have not been a fan of the modern GOP. I see today's GOP as the party of torture, corruption, thoughtless bellicosity, cynical manipul...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Surviving corporate life - stand or sleep

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Pity the American office drone. This week we see our premature demise from multiple angles ... Stand Up While You Read This! - Olivia Judso...

Fallows on the Nexus One - feel the fear Apple

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James Fallows is a senior editor at the The Atlantic, and an adventurous man with a first rate mind. He's not a tech guy by profession,...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Canada v USA - bring it on

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I couldn't watch the first USA v Canada game. But now ... Team Canada brings down Russia (Montreal Gazette) ... At the Olympics, Canada ...

The rise of software rental (aka software as service)

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I'm evaluating the combination of Notational Velocity and Simplenote (iPhone) to manage my "notes" [1], including those rela...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics - explained

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Eons ago my peers used to puzzle over the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics . Back in the 1960s an essay on the topic by Merci Coope...