Year: 2003
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One of my sisters
Old link from Wellesley press release promoting her thesis. No one did that for mine… not that it deserved it. And here’s a record of her athletic accomplishment (scroll down to the District 1 Academic All-Americas). Woo-hoo.
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Pogue on the iSight
Significant use of the iSight, as recorded by David Pogue in the NYTimes. A heck of a lot better than that TV commercial for AT&T wireless about a travelling salesman talking to his daughter at bedtime while he sits in the airport.
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“smell the children”
No, no, no. I don’t mean the children. I mean ‘smell’ what’s a few levels down in a heirarchical taxonomy, as Victor Lombardi writes in Where Nav Meets Taxonomy. Children, in this case, are those topics which are subordinate to other topics. Think biological classification: mammals are a parent of canines, and so forth. Lots…
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Catalogs = yuppie porn?
Thanks to Jeffrey Veen for linking to this SFGate.com piece, “The Hot Porn Of Pottery Barn Think Abercrombie & Fitch is racy? You haven’t seen these naked, nubile coffee tables“. The article is amusing, about how some people are (over)reacting to different catalogs and their presentation. But you should skip straight to the gallery of…
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Usability as class output
I have not used Friendster, although I’ve barely tried LinkedIn, which is similar but aimed at professional rather than personal use. (They are connected, but not the same company. Somehow, Friendster garnered millions of dollars of venture funding a few weeks ago… why? Anyway, the point of this post is that Philip Greenspun (early web…
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Role fragmentation
I found this article on Software Reality via Slashdot. On Slashdot, the thread was titled “The Rise and Rise of IT Administrators,” and it rails for developers and against all “administrators.” This is more provocative, but the more telling part of what’s causing problems in the world of software development is in the title of…
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Brooklyn, live
Just got off the iChat AV with my sister and her husband, who are snow-bound in their apartment in Brooklyn. They’ve upgraded to Panther, and we just put the new iSight to the test. Success! Works fairly well cross-country. Slight lag on the audio, and the lighting matters, but definitely smooth and easy, although I…
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Dinner
Enjoyed dinner with a friend tonight whom we haven’t seen in a while. Must remember to do so more often. Is it early for New Year’s resolutions? I know someone who is, ahem, less than fond of New Year’s. It’s not that much of an event for me, except that it makes me think every…
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Time zones
I haven’t had a chance to return my father’s phone call from yesterday because I’m getting home too late to call him. He’s on the East Coast, 3 hours ahead of San Francisco. I grew up on the East Coast, so ET is still internally in my head at (seemingly) all times, even though I’ve…
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Can a company really run…
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…