Gordon's Notes

There are a lot of apps I want that that I can't find, apps like a personal-corporate search tool , or a corrosion-resistant wiki , or a...

The modern publicly traded corporation is to data as water is to iron. It is a challenging environment for use of anything but the most corr...

Jupiter's red spot is a transient thing. One day the storm will dissipate -- though probably not in our lifetimes. Life is a transient ...

I've hit the Wall. It's partly entropy-related wetware failure, but I'd be in trouble even if I were immortal. I have two man...

A  few weeks ago my primary drive began to fail . This was painful because the recovery process exposed lots of rusty plumbing, but I was ne...

Andrew Leonard  writes about Facebook's awful ad targeting, and their efforts to retarget ads and posts . That made me wonder why Facebo...

Brad DeLong excerpts Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Dmitri Koustas: Amerisclerosis? The Puzzle of Rising U.S. Unemployment Persist...

My NiteRider  Lumina 700  seems solidly made, but since I use a front bag it's a nuisance to mount. I took apart the helmet mount and fi...

I came across a list of the BBS sites I used to get to via pre-internet call routing. I think I used something like Telnet. The NSA probably...

There was a competition underway when I first visited CrossFit St Paul ; it had pounding beats, tattoos, (relatively) young people. Somethin...

It goes something like this: Remove my personal (iPhone) mobile number from my work Google Voice (GV) account and set that number to forwa...

Today I learned of a 3-4 year old local bicycling group aimed at families with children ages 6-13 . I'd have jumped a this a few years a...

I was in an Apple Store yesterday with a burned-through seven year old power adapter cable . Our much abused power adapter came with a Mac...

A good feature of teenagers is that they sometimes sleep in. So Emily and I can chat on a quiet Saturday morning about wearable tech  ( reme...

After much thought, I decided to build my digital library on DRM-free EPUBs . That means buying from DRM-free sources like TidBITS, O'Re...