Gordon's Notes

Michael Church makes me look like a corporate fan. In a recent post he focused on startup culture ... Gervais / MacLeod 4: a world without...

Java on the Mac is malware by design . It bypasses the entire security infrastructure of OS X. It's worse than Flash, and Flash is plent...

Facebook has made some interesting attention economy moves over the past few months. Last November they created a new feed [1] called ...

In the old days  digital inheritance was simple. Say I died in 1999. ( BTW, I don't expect to this for decades ). Back then my computer...

Yes, it happens. We die . Short of death, we can be lost in the wilderness, imprisoned by whackos, captured by space aliens, comatose, or  g...

Nobody's perfect. The Jim Levin I knew was pretty good though. Smart, kind, wise, generous, honest. A family man . He had a lot of tale...

I'm an Apple customer. If Apple makes a hardware product, I buy it from them. I use most of their Mac and iOS software. That doesn'...

"THIRTY years ago, I was given a diagnosis of schizophrenia." That's a helluva way to start one of the most important NYT O...

My two home towns are Minneapolis and Montreal. They have quite a bit in common , though on this trip I was struck by how much diverse manuf...

The S&P is approaching its 2007 peak, which is basically equivalent to the peak just prior to the .com crash.  As an essentially ...

Imagine you have very limited or no legal employment opportunities. Or perhaps you have some opportunities, but they pay poorly. Dealing dr...

I joined App.net  ($5/month or $36/year) about five months ago . Although it's fundamentally a messaging infrastructure it's curren...

Over the past ten years I've been the manager for a variety of hockey and baseball teams. Along the way I've tried a variety of tech...

The second son asked me: "How did the American South feel about losing the Civil War?". My first thought was that the South was d...

To be plausible, I've read, a novel must avoid reality. What novel, for example, would start the 21st century with al Qaeda's attac...