Monthly Archives: October 2003

All Hallow’s Eve

Corporate Halloween guidelines from a client:

Costumes should be in the spirit of good natured fun. - They should not be ghoulish, violent or in bad taste.
People should not wear masks. - In this post 9/11 era, masks at the workplace are inappropriate.
People should not bring fakes guns, weapons, blunt objects, etc as part of a […]

The industry catches up to WebObjects

As part of an excellent http://dobbse.net/thinair/2003/09/000140.html, Eric Dobbs presents his http://dobbse.net/thinair/2003/10/000150.html.
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evangelists would do well to pay attention, here is your audience. I think Eric strongly articulates a reaction that many developers trained in http://java.sun.com/blueprints/guidelines/designing_enterprise_applications_2e/app-arch/app-arch5.html#1121754 will have.

Hot or not

Quick! Before the next http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_031027.html takes out the Internet, go http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/gallery/top10_vote.html.

Indistinguishable from magic

Since the latest
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(2.1), my iPod’s haptic interface has gotten even better. I rarely trigger a button by brushing against it accidently, and the wheel subjectively “moves” more naturally. It even works reliably through leather gloves, but is not fooled by them when not […]

Welcome to the light-

Mike, Charlie, Chad, James, Paul, Mitch, Simon, Anthony, and Dann have switched. Resistance is futile.

The spoils of war

Why should Halliburton have all the fun? You, too, can make money fast!

Mortality

Today I finally got my father to share the details of his condition with me. There are several ways in which cancer in measured, and on practically every one he rates the most severe score possible. There’s nothing they can do but delay the inevitable degradation of his immune system.
He’s already lived 10 […]

Suffrage

I often bow out of political conversations by putting forth a view so radical that others will write me off as unreasonable. A favorite one is suffrage of the stupid. The manner in which money exerts control over the republic is a symptom, I assert, not a source problem. The root cause […]

Hindsight isn’t always 20*20

A conservative colleague recently challenged me to back up my assertion that the US has often caused problems for itself with short-sighted foreign policy. The first item that came up was the early
support for Saddam Hussein. Last night I was surfing around and happened upon a great example of not learning from our […]

The triumph of reason

Trey Givens has helped restore my faith in reasoned online debate with his commitment to intellectual integrity. Bravo, and to reuse his own phrase: word to your mother.