Category: General

I spent the majority of today installing an enterprise-class document management system’s client. Now, I get a request to file my request for x electronic...

Can you imagine a world where the supply does not respond to the demand? I can. It’s called in-house software.

John Lienhard, in his essay Fusang, talks about the Chinese discovery of the Americas. The Chinese were very isolationist, 1500 years ago. China thought the out...

Is procrastination a learned behavior, or genetic?

I have to wonder in what world industry analysts live. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel article on broadband prices’ dropping to dial-up levels discusses th...

We should have such children! And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my work...

Rick Ochoa pointed out Planarity, a simple game by John Tantalo at Case-Western Reserve University. All you have to do is align the vertices so that no edges ov...

Via Ernie the Attorney we find that the Congresscritters have the mistaken impression that they are there to do something. In the instant case, it’s H. R....

Joe Gregorio‘s post, A World Made of (Well-Designed) Cities, points to two interesting pieces: Tim O’Reilly’s reprint of a Stewart Brand lectu...

I’ve come up with what I hope is a practical application of podcasting: love notes. Secretly download the new version of iTunes and subscribe to the love ...

Via Eric Hancock, I learn that Apple appears to be caching podcasts. This is a damn fine idea. Eric wonders, It should be relatively easy for Apple to allow pub...

Cathy‘s been about real estate for the past week or so, since Cathy and Irving got married and needed to merge their households. Who knew there was such h...

Gaming does not mesh with the prevailing educational model. That said, I find Jenny‘s posts on the GLS conference sessions to be remarkable, if not fantas...

If you are of a certain age, you will have been a member at one time of either the RCA BMG Music Club or the Columbia House Music Club. This fine service, like ...

IBM‘s MareNostrum supercomputer in Barcelona sounds like a fun assembly. With peak system performance of 40 teraflops for the final system configuration a...

Zimran holds forth on how one might arbitrage the existing real estate prices, and then opines, Finally, I don’t buy the argument that population explains...

Zimbabwe Uproots Its Own: The government of Zimbabwe has launched a campaign to wipe out the country’s shantytowns — destroying tens of thousands of...

Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.

We spent our third annual Father’s Day weekend in Lake George, New York. This year was a bit different because someone decided it would be a good time for...

The Group of Eight has agreed to forgive the debt owed them by the poor. I like this idea much more than simply giving poorer nations more money, regardless of ...