Gordon's Notes

Five years Romney was running for President. Back then I wrote: Gordon's Notes: Romney: not possible In order to win the GOP primarie...

Marco Arment, builder of a respected OS X app, writes Three Things That Should Trouble Apple – Marco.org :  ... Apple’s software quality...

My son brought home a Periodic Table from his school science class. It's also an ad for "America's Navy", "A GLOBAL F...

Emily and I were wondering what business purpose coupons serve. They make brand price comparison labor intensive and hence unaffordable for ...

A thousand years of European History - special needs history version ... 1000 Middle Ages . Lots of small Kingdoms and local rulers. Chur...

Thirty years ago I was distressed by the NIH's relative disinterest in demential research. Anyone who could do arithmetic knew what was ...

There's an international competition underway to create the first secure quantum cryptographic channel to an orbital satellite . Today...

In 3 days I've tackled three monster Apple bugs . One is with Apple ID infrastructure, one with Image Capture in Snow Leopard, and a...

Which famous scientists and/or mathematicians were also "crazy" (e.g. - far outside behavioral "norms") during their adu...

After Jobs 1.0 John Sculley championed The Newton . Wasn't ready. Flopped. Sculley left. After Jobs 2.0 Tom Cook brought us Siri. Wasn...

I was playing around with Google's astounding Google Data Visualization tool [1] and I compared GDP per capital between Canada (my birth...

I tend to think bad driving is contagious. Not contagious as in passed from parent to child , but contagious as in a short-lived virus passe...

Felix Salmon pins the JP Morgan debacle on the CEO - Jamie Dimon . Dimon supported Ina Drew's transformation of corporate "check...

My Facebook stream has been telling me what my friends read and the movies they watch.  So far, nothing too surprising.  I'm tempted to...

This is my 7420th published post since July 16, 2003 . Of all 7,420, the comments and hits on one  whimsical post about duct tape treatment...