Enjoyed Genevieve Bell's presentation about the lives of data: Genevieve Bell's presentation on bordom:

An ode to Dennis Ritchie , of C and Unix fame, who died this week. A Unix command that echos the input characters and swaps the foreground a...

In the posting Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying a commentator noted that at 98% accuracy the facial recognition software woul...

My comment on David Ascher's posting is Am I reading these trends right? What if the big 5 are perceived as "magazines." That ...

I attending Verner Vinge's lecture at URI on Tuesday night. He talked mostly about the art and mechanics of writing science fiction and ...

The following is a comment made within Facebook's walls that I want to share further. At heart I am a socialist. I live in the USA but w...

Video-game studies have serious flaws : Nature News is a good review of of the studies of video game effects on children & young adults...

Here is my comment Programming options for kids – Boing Boing To some degree the language does not matter. What matters is that the kid is r...

Basecamp does not have a means of listing links to external content. It does allow for uploading and so you can use this facility to have l...

The Quora question is Why do many programmers insist that non-graphical tools are superior to GUIs? and the simple answer is that programme...

I like the posting Designing command-line interfaces . Being a CLI type developer I have implemented most CLIs with Anders' recommendati...

The posting Kanban for Software Development is one of the clearest introductory explanations of kanban that I have read. For example, ...

Comment on The Problem with Kanban | Javalobby : The biggest problem with Kanban is that it‘s designed for a world where things go thro...

The whole Long Now seminar series is very good. If you have iTunes and an iPod just add their pod cast to your iTunes library. Note that t...

Eliel asked "What's with the moribund twitter bio ?" I am thinking that it must have been a "can't get anything right...

In the 1970s our US government representatives stopped caring about their constituents and started caring only about keeping their own job a...

Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’ — Cloud Computing News Mr Harris: When you attribute statements like "Stonebraker sai...

I need to improve my writing. I have much to say but find myself inarticulate at the keyboard or pad of paper. What I write unfolds from sen...

Nicely said at How to Rethrow an Exception Without Wrapping them Some do's and don't's with exceptions 1. Unless you have a ...

The comment was made regards to the blog posting An importance of wrapping variables . A useful feature to add to any logging tool is to all...