Gordon's Notes

Fifteen years ago, I predicted sand-based tablet devices would soon follow the price-collapse trajectory of the pocket calculator . They wou...

Stocks are overpriced again . It's probably not too much of a bubble (yet), but we continue to be significantly above "trend"...

Over the two years Google has knifed a number of open net protocols , including CalDAV, RSS, XMPP, Atom and CardDAV and they split Chrome fr...

It isn't just China that struggles with counterfeit and defective medications. India's  Ranbaxy  makes much of the generic Lipitor ...

My corporate US Bank account has a rich set of ' secret questions '... As a security measure this is ' marching morons '...

Thirteen years after the first crash of the post-disruption era  the glory days of 1996 are a fading memory. Most people under 40 do not rem...

If I survive a few more months, I'll write about why I started CrossFit at 53. It's been an interesting experience, not least beca...

We survived our monster spring break trip to Florida ( example ), so now it is time to think about how to make our children miserable this s...

Medicine is barely evidence based, so it's not surprising that education is not.  Research is expensive, and kids are so variable that e...

For the past decade I've used a typical corporate document scanner. These are the big brothers of the home "MFC" - laser print...

After decades of blood donation I was rejected in 2010 because of a false positive HTLV I/II test. I was annoyed, but not too concerned. I...

Whatever RSS (Atom, etc) was intended to be, it became the standard plumbing for subscription and notification. When In Our Time has a new ...

In the old days I did casual hookups -- of new net accounts and services. Now, of course, every net identity and related service is a secur...

We use about 1,000 minutes a month on our AT&T mobile family plan. So our use is halfway between their 700 ($48) and 1,400 minute plans ...

When I published  my 'touring bike' page  in 1997 I'd just bought a new 1996 Cannondale touring bike for $600. I've made man...