Gordon's Notes

Imagine it's April 2014. Winter is fading, the days are getting longer. The Tea Party is in its cave, licking wounds and sharpening kniv...

Ok, I don't need the stream of scams that keep daytime television on life support, but I do need something. The problem is I've got...

Do you have a lousy French accent? Never fear, it's better than mine. What we need is a victim, a native speaker, who will type whateve...

[ Preface 9/6/13 : I am enjoying the app.net discussion thread on this  with @duerig and @clarkgoble. When reading this, try substituting TR...

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...