Saturday, March 23, 2013

Schneier: Security, technology, and why global warming isn't a real problem

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In the Fever Days after September 2011, I wrote a bit about " the cost of havoc ". The premise was that technology was consistentl...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Fermi Paradox: The solution set is stable

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Any discussion of the Fermi Paradox has to be presented with a wink and a chuckle. Even if, behind the wink, there's a haunted look in ...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

Device size: clothing makes the choice

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An  App.net thread  reminded me of some analysis I did in the 90s on what device sizes we should build our  Cloud  ASP service against. That...
Saturday, March 16, 2013

Project Ducky - why I've stopped using new Cloud services.

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Dilbert 04/14/1994 : Yeah, Google Reader is on many geek minds today , but it's not the only cloud death to disrupt my routine .  Toda...
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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Google's war on standards: RSS, ActiveSync, now CalDAV

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I remember when Google seemed to be somewhat friendly to standards and to the idea of open interchange. That was, of course, Google 1.0. No...
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Quick thoughts on the end of Google Reader

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Of all the things Google has killed, I used Reader most of all. I'm sad to see it go , but, unlike the end of Reader Social , I'm n...
Saturday, March 09, 2013

Strange loops - five years of wondering why our corporate units couldn't cooperate.

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Five years ago I tried to figure out why we couldn't share work across our corporate units . This turned out to be one of those rabbit ...
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We do not understand the world in which we live

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It is always this way, on the micro and the macro. I didn't understand high school until college. I didn't understand medical school...
Friday, March 08, 2013

What's so bad about a bit of torture?

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"... The Guardian newspaper unveiled the results of a year-long investigation purporting to show that U.S. military advisers, with the...
Sunday, March 03, 2013

Does Edge Gel reduce the lifespan of disposable razors?

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I tried searching on this, but couldn't find anything - even in shaveblog.com . So, for what it's worth, here's one article. I...

The canid domestication of homo sapiens brutalis

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Eight years ago, I wondered if European Distemper killed the Native American dog  and added a footnote on an old personal hypothesis ... H...

What Evernote reminded me about my Cloud services - and my 2013 security policies

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Evernote was hacked , and they mandated a global password reset. It's not surprising Evernote was hacked. As Schneier wrote a few days ...
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ADN.NET: To get beyond social app.net needs to make parting painless

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I love app.net as it is now , but nothing is forever. App.net is a specialized taste, and it needs to grow to survive. That growth might co...

Why are some simple things still hard to discover online?

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My Delta flight left from San Francisco International Airport (SFO) terminal 3, but Google told me a Lids store was in Terminal 1. I was loo...
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Which is better for work travel: An 11" MacBook Air or a (maxi) iPad with Logitech keyboard?

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I have just returned from a conference where I ran R and Python code on my 11" MacBook Air. It did the job well; Mountain Lion's Fu...
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