Friday, June 28, 2013

Blogger.com and Wordpress.com traffic post the end of Google Reader

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Inspired by this Rumproarious post on the effects of the Google Reader shutdown announcement  of mid-March 2013 (data excludes custom domain...
Saturday, June 22, 2013

Microcomputer redux

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Once upon a time, in the 1970s, these were microcomputers : "" We called them micro -computers because we used the term mini -co...
Sunday, June 09, 2013

Cash purchases driving a new real estate bubble - too much wealth, too few investments

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Cash-only real estate speculation in LA, Boston, Miami, San Francisco and so on (emphases mine) ... Cash Is Fueling Quick Home Sales - NYT...
Tuesday, June 04, 2013

Was AirPort Utility 6 the start of Apple's year of drifting dangerously?

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I used Pacifist to install Airport Utility 5.6 when I upgraded to Mountain Lion . So I didn't really notice how many features Apple remo...
Saturday, June 01, 2013

What pedestrians and cyclists can do while we wait for the end of human drivers

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After 40 years of biking with cars , and almost as long driving with them, I cannot avoid the obvious. Humans cannot drive cars safely arou...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

Android tablet price crash: do we have a cereal box computer yet?

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Fifteen years ago, I predicted sand-based tablet devices would soon follow the price-collapse trajectory of the pocket calculator . They wou...
Sunday, May 19, 2013

Stock prices - resorting to another dumb hydraulic analogy

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Stocks are overpriced again . It's probably not too much of a bubble (yet), but we continue to be significantly above "trend"...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

Scorched Earth - if Google can't own the web then it must destroy it.

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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...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

The Ranbaxy story: why we still can't trust our medications

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It isn't just China that struggles with counterfeit and defective medications. India's  Ranbaxy  makes much of the generic Lipitor ...
Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Our secret questions will be helpful after the singularity.

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My corporate US Bank account has a rich set of ' secret questions '... As a security measure this is ' marching morons '...
Saturday, May 04, 2013

Addressing structural underemployment (aka mass disability)

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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...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Muscle soreness two days after CrossFit -- why does it go away?

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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...
Saturday, April 20, 2013

Learning programming for middle school - Python

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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...

Math education if you don't care for everyday math and religious purity is not required

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

Why does the Fujitsu iX500 document scanner need a computer?

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