For those of you with significant others, I don’t recommend that you share this information. Not that I have anything to worry about.
I was lucky enough to catch the end of Teltech’s presentation at the Cluecon 2007 show in Chicago, and I heard about their new service called LiarCard. Essentially, Liarcard listens in on [...]
Well, it’s almost summer here on the Cape, and as is the Cape tradition, time to get the kids to work. When I was a kid, it was really the only time you COULD get work, so you ended up spending all summer working seventy hours a week, because when Labor Day comes, your [...]
I had the pleasure of working for a man named Chuck Holland in the mid 90’s. Chuck is a wonderful, bright and generous man, now semi-retired after a wonderful career as a high tech entrepreneur, even including a part in Tracy Kidder’s Pulitzer Winning Novel “The Soul of a New Machine.” Chuck told [...]
I admit to having a rocky history with data.
It began back in 1981, when I was a freshman in high school. At the time, I had been programming in basic for a year or two, and I was learning C at my father’s office at Raytheon. There were a few kids I grew [...]
Do you ever hear something about yourself, and say “No, I’m not like that!”, then after some reflection realize… I AM like that!
So, for all of you who have been asking, I’ve been programming my little heart out. Which is why I’m not blogging so much, as I can’t seem to get my head shifted [...]
My god, what has happened to the patent office?
Perusing a blog tonight, I caught a post that made my jaw drop. Apparently, somebody recently patented the linked list. Seriously. Click the link.
Now, come on. What brain-dead patent lady let this one through?!? Mary Steelman. If you’re that brain dead woman, and you [...]
Had a wonderful time last night before the Gigantes game doing a podcast with Narendra from 30 boxes. (I’ll post it when I get back home next week) I met with Nerendra a couple of weeks ago at the Web 2.0 show in San Francisco, and I had this lingering thought about Web 2.0 [...]
For me, 2007 looks like the year of messaging backplanes. As an architect, it’s a wonderful thing. Long a staple of enterprising messaging architectures, such as financial transaction applications, I believe it to be a very valuable addition to the standard telecom architecture. I’m doing two independent designs at the moment [...]
I am super interested about today’s story about the Digg revolt, not so much about the story itself, but about the management reaction. The short story : some users posted the security key for unlocking HD-DVD movies, and Digg deleted them before the AACS Licensing Authority sued them. Users revolt, Digg capitulates and [...]
April 26, 2007 – 12:03 pm
David Galbraith just dug out this video. It looks like somebody at Ernst and Young really thought this would motivate somebody. Were Dante Allegheri alive today, he would include elements of this video as one of his circles of hell, for sure. So, let me get this straight, if you want to work at Ernst [...]