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All software has bugs, no doubt. So pulling out one story to make a point isn’t really fair. (Especially recalling the story about stones and glass houses.) But if I looked I know I could find story after story, including some that I could write from first hand experience, about the **...
Read more →If you, like me, are a space buff, you will find these pieces about space-shuttle safety very interesting (and follow the links too.) So check these out: > “They’re going to kill more astronauts” (from Terrestrial Musings) and “Nobody’s Perfect” (from Tech Central Station.)
Another excellent Peggy Noonan column: > “How exactly does it work? How does legitimate self-confidence become wildly inflated self-regard? How does self respect become unblinking conceit? How exactly does one’s character become destabilized in Washington? …” “…What is wrong with them? This is not a rhetorical question. I think it is unspoken question No. 1 as Americans look at so many of the individuals in our government. What is wrong with them? “ (from Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal) I always love her stuff!
This is commonly accepted wisdom: When I download and install an application on my computer (any platform) it is a accepted wisdom that if the application is signed with a recognized and valid certificate, I am practicing safe download and my computer isn’t going to be damaged. This belief is s...
Read more →Aren’t you glad, since every other blogger is blah-blah-blah’ing about it? But here is a linkwith some really insightful posts about it.
You can do your blogging by typing into a web browser form provided by the Movable Type service. But boy is that clumsy and awful. So for a while now I’ve used so-called “blogging clients” which provide a nice rich interface to write and edit the posts, and then use the server’s APIs to actual...
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What a difference this conference is from the ones I usually go to. Ten thousand or so fairly hard-core Java programmers, more or less around th...
About 3 months ago I subscribed to Atlantic Magazine, which I really like, by the way. On a lark, I gave my name as “Pito Atlantic Salas” because, well, it amused me. It’s taken about 3 months and I’ve received my first bit of Atlantic generated junk mail today: [ Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine has an [interesting view](http://www.buzzmachine.co...
Read more →I came across a good story about ModestNeeds.org from Deborah Finn’s blog, where she says: > “In other words, although philanthropy no longer looks like it did in the time when most people ...
Read more →I wrote a few days ago about the coming LA Times initiative to create something they are calling “Wikitorials.” Well they’ve done it, and the results are quite interesting: Someone going by the name Han...
Read more →Francois, reacting to something written by Jason Calcanis, makes a very good point in this discussion about feed and blog aggregators nee...
Read more →Not computer service providers, but folks like carpenters and plumbers…. I came across ServiceMagic, which is a pretty cool site for locating and hiring people to work on projects around the house. I needed three doors repaired and on a lark I posted the project on t...
Read more →Ok, but, unlike Simplebits, this picture doesn’t horrify me 🙂 Technorati Tags: funny
A couple of interesting related articles on facts and non-facts: > “Wikipedia is one of the Web’s most popular sites. I asked a teenager if he understood that it carries a disclaimer; Wikipedia “can’t guarantee the validity of the information found here.” “That’s just so that no one will sue them,”...
Read more →I came across what is supposed to be the transcript of a commencement speech given by Steve Jobs (my hero 🙂 on June 14th. It’s certainly resonates with me: > “You’ve got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your ...
Read more →States Ranked: Smartest to Dumbest. No Comment. Technorati Tags: interesting
You’ve heard me complain about comment spam before haven’t you? Comment Spam is when mysterious robot software attacks my blog and floods it with fake comments? I came across this [handy little document](http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/comment_spam...
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