Year: 2003
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Hard to keep up to…
A bit slow, but interesting: Search Engine Decoder. [via Emergic]
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How would you draw the…
I just reviewed an illuminating re-think of mapping the California recall votes, thanks to a pointer from Jeffrey Veen. Wow. You can really lie better with pictures than numbers, if you want to. I visited the Exploratorium here in San Francisco yesterday, and smiled my way through various hands-on and eyes-on exhibits, several of which…
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It’s not enough to be…
Just read this IBM developerWorks article about the poor state of documentation. Fair enough, but whining about it without providing more specific examples, for real-world products, isn’t tremendously helpful. (I rarely write documentation, but I have done some for internal tools.) The only tip to improve the process was on indexing. Want to make a…
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Who’s in charge here?
Bookmarked this NYTimes.com article on the digital home and its discontents several days ago. Written by James Gleick, whom I’ve read regularly, this essay points out that our implementation of technology in the home is ahead of the maturation necessary to make the technologies used invisible. Plug and play? No way. Once you’ve entered the…
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Comics without the newsprint
I’ve been reading five daily comic strips using NetNewsWire, via RSS feeds from Tapestry. This morning, I learned about iComic, a dedicated application just for comic strips. I’m guessing it works much the same way, but maybe I’ll try it out. I am not a big fan of the San Francisco Chronicle Datebook section. Without…
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Procrastination
Aaron Swartz commented on The Procrastination Paradox yesterday. With some amusing links, he also asks the big question: what’s the root cause? He comes up with one answer: There’s only one explanation that makes sense: it’s not anything intrinsic to the task, but the outside importance of the task that makes us procrastinate. But what…
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Monday can be different
If you are on vacation, Monday sure feels different. Of course, still reading all my feeds via NetNewsWire first thing, and checking my email (mostly spam, caught by Apple’s Mail), and trying to juggle playing with the boy and a bit of computer time.
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Are you perfect?
NYTimes article Getting a Job in the Valley Is Easy, if You’re Perfect really gets you excited about the ‘recovery.’ Witness: Indeed, what qualifies as good news in the technology industry is not so much evidence of overall job gains, but signs that job losses have slowed considerably. Great…
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Meeting Adrian
Adrian Holovaty shared the news on his blog that he and his wife were travelling to the West Coast, and he invited people to connect with him. I took him up on the invitation. Only had 25 minutes or so, in the middle of the workday, to welcome him at the office, but I enjoyed…
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Tough evening
The boy is alright, but we did have to go to the emergency room this evening. He sliced himself enough that we didn’t feel comfortable trying to handle it. He’ll be fine. As usual, the emergency room took some time… he wasn’t the most urgent case. Bumps in the road = being a parent.