Gordon's Notes

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...