RAF. www.rafinfo.de tells the story of the Rote Armee Fraktion.
A PDA That Knows Where You Are. Or, as Forbes.com puts it: A PDA That Tells You Where To Go.
Posted in Mobile Computing, Software on 31/07/2003|
RAF. www.rafinfo.de tells the story of the Rote Armee Fraktion.
A PDA That Knows Where You Are. Or, as Forbes.com puts it: A PDA That Tells You Where To Go.
Posted in Software Development on 30/07/2003|
Quiz: What is the name of the company, of which a PR executive said that “the company thrives on chaos, which served them well in its early days” ? You’ll find the answer here, in the Seattle Weekly…
Posted in Software Development on 29/07/2003|
rswt. Just a four-letter word, but one that may have a profound impact – if it gets to be what it promises to be: Remote SWT is very much an X-Windows look-a-like, at least on an architectural level. In any case, this project is worth following.
Posted in Software Development on 28/07/2003|
Laws of Software Complexity: check them out at Artima.com.
Why? I don’t understand the discussion that’s going on in the USA – you can trust computers when they’re dealing with your money and your bank accounts, but not when they are used for registering votes? Wired: “Even then, he said, computers and voting should not mix“.
Posted in Society on 23/07/2003|
Important Reminder. Michael Parenti writes “that Bush is neither retarded nor misdirected. Given his class perspective and interests, there are compelling reasons to commit armed aggression against Iraq—and against other countries to come. It is time we dwelled less upon his malapropisms and more on his rather effective deceptions and relentless viciousness“.
Posted in Society, Software Development on 22/07/2003|
Strange… that this lesson comes from the land of unbounded capitalism: Business lessons from the donut and coffee guy. You’d expect wisdom like this from different sources… Seriously now. I know: stereotypes are always wrong, and so is this one – but don’t forget that most people out AND in the US of A always see the extremes, and not the extensive variation that lies between them. Then again, do you think that such a lesson will influence the way world economy is evolving?
And So Is This: Strange. I’m not sure I could work with XML-formatted data if it were presented to me like this.