Faded Memories
All I remember of one of the few records I owned as a child is a line that ended one of the songs. Save your Confederate credit cards. The South’s gonna r...
Author: Will Cox
What Benefit are Wire Services in a Well-Connected World?
As a former employee of The Associated Press, it’s been somewhat embarrassing to watch their plodding attempts to control data which has already escaped f...
Statistical Enquiry of the Devil’s Playground
Certain laws and regulations, and policies related to those, have a non-trivial impact on statistics which are not normally thought of in concert with those law...
Like, but not totally unlike, Useful
IBM has a way of making software that looks like it would be really helpful and of great utility — if it didn’t totally suck. Stick to hardware, guy...
New York City Department of Kafka
What the fuck? We hear from New York City school teachers about a secret room in the New York City Board of Education building. Teachers are told to report ther...
Where Have All the People Gone?
… long time passing … This video comparison of Barcelona in 1908 and in 2008 by Fotos de Barcelona is striking, and not just in the differences in t...
To Those of You Paging Out for On-Call Support
You’d better have a damn good reason for waking me up. Ask yourself this: “Is somebody dying?” No? Then it can wait until morning.
What do the Professionals Bring to the Table?
With the office abuzz with rumors that IBM might purchase Sun, I’m tempted to ask myself if I really needed any reminders why I don’t read trade pub...
Freeze Tag
As previously mentioned, the school district needs to trim about $18.5 million in order to avoid a tax increase.
Against the Time Change
Really it’s not the shift in noon that I’m against — though there is a certain rightness to being able to look up at the sun and say, “a...
The Impact of the Daylight Saving Time Change on Traffic Accidents
It seems to me that accidents would increase during the transitional period surrounding the switch between Standard Time and Daylight Saving Time. And apparentl...
Friend or Foe?
I’ve added Google Friend Connect. I see that Feedburner says that there are 164 subscribers today, so I expect to have more than two members on the site. ...
Air Conditioners
The Big Sister had an informed response to the President’s suggestion that we send our children to school all year. They’d have to buy air condition...
Time Enough
Apparently President Obama remarked on education yesterday. For decades, Washington has been trapped in the same stale debates that have paralyzed progress and ...
Recommendations
John Battelle made some comment about Facebook and Twitter that Rick Klau shared in Google Reader the other day, and which I’m too lazy to find the link t...
Pretend You’re a Chainsaw
During a depression, wages are sticky downward. That is, they do not drop quickly, though prices do. Instead, jobs are lost. Fine. I’m going to pretend I&...
Painful Balancing
The Arlington Central School District is treating this budget planning a bit differently than the past few, because of the severe fiscal pressures. This is a go...