Archive 2020
Who Builds The H-Bomb? Not I!
- “Who Builds The H-Bomb?”
- Mark Levy, December ‘81
How Biden can win like Obama
I have a theory that 3 things lead to Obama’s win. He surprised the GOP three ways.
read moreGoogle Meets and Sneezes
A Good Sign
Working at home with dogs
Most of my company works remote, and with C-19 we are now all working remotely.
read moreTerms and conditions
Section 1
Cookies: We reserve the right to set cookies and use use services that set cookies. Hell if we know what happens after that. Even if we had legal agreements with those external services, we wouldn’t trust those third parties to abide by the agreements. Nether should you.
Section 2
Log retention: The web server we use logs all incoming requests (“traffic logs”) just like any reasonable web server software. We reserve the right to keep these traffic logs forever. We also reserve the right to delete the logs any time and for any reason; including that we’re too drunk, lazy, or stupid to find something else to delete when we need more space on the server. If we have to decide between deleting porn or these logs… don’t bet on the logs.
read morePrimaries 2024
Wouldn’t it make more sense if the early primary states were picked from the battleground states of the previous election instead of being a fixed set of states? For example, the top 5 battleground states go first.
read moreOn requiring experienced presenters to rehearse
There’s a small controversy brewing behind the scenes at conferences because of this trend to require speakers to rehearse their talk via video conference prior to the event.
read moreClayton Christensen has died
Clayton Christensen died on Jan 23, 2020 at the age of 67.
You may know him from his 1997 best selling book, “The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail.”
He was incredibly influential, well beyond the typical author.
read moreHow to spell the word "Bisexual"
I wrote this in Oct 1999. I’ve fixed up some typos but otherwise this is unchanged.
read moreCelebrating Martin Luther King, Jr and technology
My Martin Luther King, Jr. day tradition is to listen to the speech he made at my alma mater, Drew University, in Madison, New Jersey, on Feb 5, 1964 (nearly a quarter century before I attend).
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