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I was recently visiting Curaçao and remembered that I had read that Netflix was now available in South America so I thought I would check it out. (Curaçao is not technically in South America but close enough!) Well, it worked. For one reason or another, I found a british program called “[The Ho...
Read more →I just finished reading the book Seabiscuit. I previously had no interest (and no respect) for Horse Racing. The book changed that. It was quite interesting in human and r...
Read more →Where in the US is hottest for Cloud Computing, or for Big Data, or for No Sql? Curious? Yeah, then you’re a geek. Here’s a quick interesting set of graphs that cover questions like that and others. US Tech Hotspots: San Fran, Boston and Utah? from GigaOm
Here’s an interesting article in “The Opinionator” of the New York Times about blogging, scholarly writing and the tension between the two. He says: > “… The digital humanities, it is claim...
Read more →David Colletta shared this link in comments to my recent post about team work. David’s link was good enough that I thought I should excerpt it to increase the chances that my colleagues and...
Read more →Here’s an interesting article “Modernizing Conservatism”, yes, not my typical subject matter. Written from a Conservative’s viewpoint it critiques some of the pillars of American Conservatism that might not be ef...
Read more →I’ve had occasion as you know to teach a few times at Brandeis University. The courses were in Web Development, Mobile Development and Game Development. A major component was a Product Incubator where students worked in teams to develop a product. Th...
Read more →Do you agree that prohibiting texting while driving is contradictory to texting as a way to deliver of major emergency messages? > “This week I noted a couple of different items that are a good example of the right hand of the Government not knowing what the left hand of the Government is doin...
Read more →I know basic Javascript. I think I will be learning more soon. I think JavaScript is the language of the (near) future. Predicting what the language of the (further) future is would be impossible, as programming languages come and go. Hopefully they get better as they evolve. Why do I say that it i...
Read more →An interesting and fun to read article in Vanity Fair about the security check procedures established by the TSA: > “Taking off your shoes is next to useless. “It’s like saying, Last time the terrorists wore red shirts, so n...
Read more →It felt like a war zone without the danger! [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofUdhro7G2o&w=420&h=315]
Recently I wanted to get feedback on one of several ideas for the design of the new BlogBridge web site. I had selected 6 product web sites that had a nice look and wanted to somehow visually compare them. Here are two free tools I used: - [Papparazzi](http://derailer....
Read more →Due to an unusual set of coincidences I have 3 different Macintosh computers in my office today so I could run performance comparisons. After a brief bit of research I came across XBench, a free, open source benchmarking suite. I am not positive that it is the state of the art,...
Read more →I saw this movie, Altered States, again last night. It’s even better than I remembered and it’s my third or fourth time seeing it! It’s weird and scary (still) but really compelling. An antropo-horror movie! [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbYT3UclhNY]
I saw this quote from Dickens’ Great Expectations. I had to read it several times to get the meaning. It’s appropriate for this season. > “Pause you,” Pip says, “and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.” (from Dickens, as quoted by Maureen Dowd in the New York Times)
I just finished reading a great book, “Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer