Day: December 3, 2003

Rajesh Jain writes about his mental mode of an ‘open source company’. I find myself fascinated by the idea of a truly transparent company. I find myself enjoying reading work weblogs even more than personal weblogs in part because for many of them it humanizes the company whether it’s a company of 55,000 like Microsoft or a company of 2 like Ranchero. Of course, I don’t kid myself that one person’s view is reality… but it’s more than I would know otherwise. I have not read much of David Brin’s work on transparency, but I know he was speaking more broadly than just about the corporate world. Still, transparency has other meanings/intents… think about the growing (temporary?) push towards transparency in accounting, given the latest wave of scandals. Can you effectively run a small company out in the open? Yes. A medium-size company? Hmmm… A large company? No one has had time to even attempt it yet.

A gazetteer with many fun links, courtesy of David Galbraith, who found the link via Research Buzz.

I don’t, publicly. Just an internal blog. If I did want to blog at work, I’d follow the links from this page and see if I’ve missed anything.

I read part of this NYTimes review of digital learning devices, like the LeapPad, which the boy has and enjoys from time to time. Other alternatives mentioned here, although from a quick scan, sounds like the LeapPad is still leading the pack.

…of the study for a few nights, as we try and get the girl over her cold and prepared to sleep in the crib in the same room as the boy. I’ll use that as my excuse for lack of postings. The ratcheting up of my workload at the office plays an indirect role, too. It’s a short stretch to the bigger holidays, but it’s going to be a busy period.

I forgot to mention that we got the iChat AV working wonderfully with the iSight and our Canon DV camera on two different computers in the same household. Good incentive to upgrade to Panther, so now we’ll see how long it takes my sister to upgrade her computer in Brooklyn.

Also, once I found the right setting, the VPN software in Panther just works. That is so nice. I don’t know if I’ll ever undock the ThinkPad at work again, thanks to Remote Desktop Connection client for MacOS X. Maybe it’s time to ask for a cheap desktop with more power, since I swear I can hear the 3+ year old ThinkPad CPU heating up now and again.