01/11 Software Technology hotspots in the USA — 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

01/10 Digital Humanities: A fancy word for blogging? — 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...

01/08 On the importance of learning to work in teams — 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...

01/06 Serve-the-check instead of Starve-the-beast — 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...

01/04 Teaching: Group Projects — 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...

01/03 Texting: Left and Right Hand of Government — 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...

01/02 I wish I knew more JavaScript — 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...

01/01 TSA: Smokescreening — 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...

01/01 Happy New Year from Curaçao! — It felt like a war zone without the danger! [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofUdhro7G2o&w=420&h=315]

12/31 Sharing Web Site Designs — 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....

12/29 MacBook Performance comparison — 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,...

12/27 Altered States — 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]

12/26 Pause, you… — 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, “€œand 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)

12/25 Common Non-sense — I just finished reading a great book, “Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer![](http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=blogbridge-20&l=...

12/25 Experts are clueless — One of the lessons that Guy Kawasaki learned from Steve Jobs, which really rings true to me: > “Experts are clueless. Experts — €”journalists, analysts, consultants, bankers, and gurus can’t €œdo€ so they...

12/21 Ideas that work! Not for me, but some great gift ideas — I know my own Christmas/Channukah gifts have already been purchased by Santa. So this is not for me, but I saw a bunch of cool ideas on this list, so I thought I would share it! Check this post [10 Great Gifts For Photographers Under $20](http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalPhotographySchool/~3/cZ...

12/21 Packages at side door — For no apparent reason, my Holiday packages are being delivered to our side door. We’ve had that side door for 10 years and no one has ever used it, especially not for package delivery. I wonder if this is a new anti-scrooge-thief policy from the UPS, Fedex and USPS’s of the world? See Holiday Deliveries Attract Thieves

12/21 Wall Street Journal has some sensational data visualization — I don’t know if you need an account to see the amazingly useful, elegant and well implemented bit of data visualization in the Wall Street Journal. Typical of a nerd like me, I focus more on the design and technical elements than the data that it is trying to show. The data, by the way is polling data sliced in all kinds of ways that are useful and easy to use. Well done WSJ!

12/20 Channukah is like the World Series, Christmas like the superbowl — Ned Batchelder, my pal, points out that: > “Like the Super Bowl, Christmas is one concentrated day. For celebrants, it is the only thing happening that day, and it’s preceded by weeks of anticipation and preparation. Another similarity is the zeal with which businesses try to piggy-back on the exc...

12/19 Happy Hanukkah — [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzh-TKzXN2k&w=560&h=315]