Saturday, November 29, 2014

The obsolete world of photo sharing

›
I made another stab at sharing images to Facebook Groups. It didn’t go any better than my previous efforts. First I tried using Facebook’s ...
Friday, November 28, 2014

Learning new habits and skills - Pinboard, Simplenote, Toodledo and the skr tag

›
Being new-old means learning to be deliberative about things that were once opportunistic. I used to get my exercise whenever I could — now...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Riots

›
Over the past few decades developed world growth in wealth and income has been captured by a small segment of the population. Globalization...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

Negotiation 2014: A compilation of state of the art techniques

›
Henry Alford wrote an entertaining essay on holiday dinner peacemaking tips. I enjoyed the essay, but I also appreciated the inventory of te...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Exercise on the exit ramp - the 30 year plan.

›
One way to spot  an aging control-freak geek : after 55 we count down to the target zone . [1] One of the things we ponder is how much exer...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Facebook's feed overflow fix will have collateral damage

›
Facebook, the everyman feed reader, has an “ attention economy ” problem that’s familiar to anyone who has used industrial feed readers like...

A variant of English optimized for machine translation to Chinese

›
A  Jonathon Duerig comment on App.net  reminded me of an old idea that still hasn't come to pass. It should be possible to define a st...
Sunday, November 16, 2014

AT&T secret mobile opt out system shows sense of humor

›
Nick Heer described AT&T’s customer activity tracking best … AT&T Stops Using Undeletable Phone Tracking IDs — Pixel Envy … Here...
Saturday, November 15, 2014

After the Apple Watch debacle - the Nano recovery

›
Seven years ago Clayton “Innovators Dilemma” Christensen wrote .. Clayton "innovators dilemma" Christensen: Apple will fail … t...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Keystone question: if US were to meet China accord goals, would Keystone be economically viable?

›
To widespread surprise, the US and China reached an agreement on carbon emissions: U.S. and China Reach Climate Accord After Months of Tal...
Monday, November 10, 2014

Annals of return to RSS - Geeks who don't realize their site has a feed

›
RSS , left for dead years ago, has crawled back   out   of the   wilderness . Today we welcome our latest Prodigal - Jon Udell . There&#...
2 comments:
Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Election 2014: post-mortem

›
Why did it turn out the way it did? electoral map midterm bias to GOP base (turnout) voters unhappy with personal economic experience. ...
Friday, October 24, 2014

She's dead Jim. Requiem for a 9 year old G5 iMac

›
I bought my G5 20” iMac in July of 2005 with a 400GB SATA drive and SuperDrive for $1879, it expired today at 9y3m of age. I think the 400 ...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

The relativistic version of the linear motion equation: velocity = acceleration*time.

›
My son is starting to do … physics. It is fair to say I am more excited about this than he is. There is a reason I have a copy of the 1973 ...
Friday, October 17, 2014

Blogging is definitively back - the NYT has redone their Zombie RSS page

›
My feeds (Feedbin/Reeder) have never gone quiet — but there’s no doubt it was getting harder to find links to feeds over the two years since...