The recent attention to Apple’s patents on “piles” reminds me of an entertaining conversation Ryan and I had in 2005.
We were caught up in the HDR fad, and lamented how poor iPhoto is at managing photos meant to be grouped, as when auto-bracketing exposure or shooting for panorama stitching. As I said aloud that […]
Category Archives: memories
A more realistic desktop metaphor
February 8, 2007 – 11:58 pm
Growing into naiveté
July 7, 2006 – 8:09 am
George W. Knox, director of the National Gang Crime Research Center, said he has trained hundreds of police officials in how to cull intelligence on gang membership, rivalries, territory and lingo from these Web pages.
“In order to understand any subculture, be it al Qaeda, witches, devil worshippers or gangs, you have to be able to […]
Rootnet
March 28, 2003 – 12:00 am
The trees bloomed today. Most of them. All at once, it seems.
When I was a child and had just discovered computer networks (before the word “network” entered the common lexicon), I often mused to myself that the trees might have an Internet of their own, connected through roots, with a few high-latency links […]
