Gordon's Notes

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! Shelley Cleaning spam out of my Yahoo email (it's sp...

Progress is a drunken walk.

After 1973, and especially after the early 1980s, productivity gains went towards the 1%. Media male compensation in particular went flatlin...

In our world billions of dollars are spent trying to get us to read and click ads. Billions. So why are the ads so crappy? Google, w...

Once every few days to weeks I write a short essay, from a few paragraphs to a few "pages" (remember the page?).  Every few minute...

Our 15 yo coffee maker finally died. We bought Cuisinart's 2012 equivalent . It sort of works, much as our current toaster sort of work...

There may be atheists in foxholes, but there are few realists in the C-suite - or the White House. Optimists rule, and they scorn realists ...

It wasn't even close. When the commercial lawn care pickup [3], MN YBB 1778, squeezed towards me I just moved right. Missed me by at lea...

There are lots of parodies of Google Glasses . I haven't bothered with them though; too easy a target and the technology seemed pointles...

The ailing hippo of SMS texting is under attack . iOS / OS X Message is at its throat, Google Voice SMS is on its back, and now the hyena...

It seems like all of my friends and colleagues are managing ailing parents - all at once. Coincidence? Probably not. The 'baby boomers&...

I've been expecting this; I'm just surprised it took this long. There was a wee note on my online statement "AT&T monthly s...

This Telegraph article is primarily about a Hansen lecture on humanity's failure to think rationally about climate change, but I found t...

Today there are 182 1 star reviews of George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4 . If you haven't started the series, even if...

Some years ago a man named Rob N . told me he was a keen reader of this blog. Those were the days of Bush and Cheney, and I often posted on ...