Gordon's Notes

Blogger, long left for dead, tottered into the pub this week. Among other signs of life,  there's a new comment spam filtering system ....

Getting a US passport for any child got harder when the State Department decided to "fight" international child abduction by requ...

AT&T may add a data plan without approval if a US customer puts their GSM card in a smart phone (iPhone, BB, Windows, etc). They can d...

I start quite a few posts that hang around in draft mode. I'm not sure how I lost this one about an old Wisconsin cross ski resort; it s...

There's been a lot of talk about how retirement accounts have been devastated by the Great Recession. There's been less talk about 5...

Shorter version of my essay on Employment in the Great Stagnation : Thirty-five years ago people could get a job pumping gas.   See also...

If you know R2D2 is the true mastermind. Yoda and Palpatine are merely pawns.

Lester Thurow wrote " The Zero Sum Society " in 1980… Written during a period of acute economic stagnation in 1980, The Zer...

When I was new, one of my hobbies was visiting cults. The recruiters loved me; I suppose I had a credulous face. It was a surprisingly educa...

In my 3rd edition of Google - The Quick, The Sick and the (near) Dead I had Wave on the Walking Dead list ... Gordon's Notes: Google: Th...

In the midst of an unremarkable summary of the state of the Microsoft-Intel alliance , The Economist has a remarkable graphic (click for ful...

This morning I listened to the excellent IOT program on Antarctica . I didn't know ice flowed like molten meta. Because of that, for the...

Tim Bray works for Google, so he's not a great source on the state of Android phones. (He's a smart critic of the iPhone though.) On...

Per the hard-to-find directions, I used the support request form to request YouSendIt account cancellation. This is what I got back. You...

This is for men aged 38 to 45. Everyone else, turn the page. When I turned 5 nanosols (50 solar years), I did a status and lessons learned r...