Gordon's Notes

We get a lot of junk calls now at home on our unlisted home wired phone. Many hangup calls, "survey" calls, robocalls -- our home ...

Twenty-seven days ago I declared war on AT&T Mobile . The war is done - for now. At this time I've slashed the amount of money we se...

Steve Jobs bachelor party consisted of him, a reluctant Avie Tevanian, and one other guy. At that point in his life, he had no true friends....

I've been chattering for a few years about the rise of  mass disability and the role of RCIIT (India, China, computers, networks) in t...

I've been playing with a simplified model of the carrier-locked AT&T American 2011 iPhone marketplace. I think it makes some interes...

I visited my Google Profile today. It includes G+ posts, and more was public than I'd expected. There's no longer a way to disable t...

Everyone I read had the same reaction ... ... Plausible Culpability - By Daniel Byman | Foreign Policy Incredulity has been the most common...

One of the reasons I blog is to engage with a fascinating world, and to track the streams of history. I'm finding that harder to do....

Our iPhone-bearing family is going through complex gyrations to claw some money back from AT&T . Things were simpler, and less costly, t...

Four years ago Atul Gawande wrote an astounding article on the "stupid little checklist" and its impact on health care. It was a ...

Jobs was the best salesman of the past 50 years. I wonder, though, if deep down he knew what was real and what was not. His Heirs don'...

To the surprise of nobody I read, the super-committee is said to be focusing on how best to present complete failure . Since this was expec...

I'm looking forward to the discussions on this paper by Pusey et al ... Quantum theorem shakes foundations : Nature News & Comment ...

I knew Rick Perry was ignorant, but this moves it up to a new level... Republican Financial Plans - NYTimes.com ... This week, Perry laced i...

This morning's NPR Marketwatch summarized the latest IPCC climate change report. They included the mandatory scornful reference to the f...