Gordon's Notes

Obama raised mileage standards for my industry. Ok, so it wasn’t him personally, and it’s not mileage, and I don’t exactly own the health c...

Now he's pro-choice: Norm! | TPM Editors Blog Romney surrogate Norm Coleman caught on tape assuring Ohio voters that Roe v. Wade is s...

A few weeks ago Minnesota got some app.net attention. Alas, it was because we looked a bit silly ... Minnesota Gives Coursera the Boot, Ci...

I usually wait for my iPhone upgrades, but I was an early 4S adapter. That meant I used Siri when she worked . She didn't work for ver...

I realized this should have been on my tech blog, so I reposted an updated version there .

Nguyen Chi Thien Obituary | The Economist : "From 1995 he managed to get shelter in America. He lived humbly in Little Saigon in Orange...

There was a bit of press about an extensive CPI series investigating increases in charges by physicians using electronic health records. I ...

I'll be traveling Nov 6th, so tonight was voting night for me. If you've read this blog at all you can guess that that the top of th...

It's not personal, it's just that wages are sticky ... Poorer but Wiser After a Year of Unemployment - NYTimes.com They are skill...

William Baumol was born in 1922 . In 2012, 90 years later, he's listed as first author on a new book :  The Cost Disease: Why Computers ...

When something goes wrong on a computer, we all turn to Google.  Almost all. I suppose Apple employees have to use Bing. I can usually fin...

A guy with a big chip on his shoulder isn't going to do well. He's easy to play with, but even without manipulation he's going t...

Contrary to Joe Nocera's impression , Steve Jobs' Apple screwed up a lot. MobileMe wasn't the only disaster; even iCloud was a r...

The new iOS connector cable. iOS 6 maps. iOS 6 Podcasts. RSS Deprecation. iTunes 11 (train coming). iCloud. Siri. Lion. Embedded webkit hole...

I haven't done a Drake/Fermi Paradox post for ages. A lot has happened in the meantime; in particular estimates of the number of potenti...