keeping simple

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  • we uh, threw those disk drives away, your honor.

    “When workstations are at the end of their lifecycle and retired … the hard drives are generally sent offsite to another government entity for physical destruction,” the White House said in a sworn declaration filed with U.S. Magistrate Judge John Facciola. from the AP.

  • South by Southwest and Apple versus Dell

    An old friend in the music business was visiting and we wandered around Austin’s gigantic South by Southwest music and film extravaganza and, of course, I was struck by the effects of Apple’s brilliant product design and marketing. IPods and MacBooks were everywhere and iPhones were rivaling Blackberries. Downstairs at the convention center, Dell had…

  • Yale Patt on Abstraction

    Abstraction’s a good thing? Abstraction is a good thing if you don’t care about the performance of the underlying entities. You know, so many schools teach freshmen programming in Java. So what’s a data structure? Who cares? My hero is Donald Knuth, who teaches data structures showing how data is stored in memory. Knuth says…

  • The smart phone patent

    Coming to Marshall Texas. 33 defendents, 128 claims .

  • Boeing’s clever idea

    (Update – great link in John Regehr’s comment) Apparently, passenger, admin, and air control computers are all connected. Here’s a reassuring comment (emphasis added) Boeing spokeswoman Lori Gunter said the wording of the FAA document is misleading, and that the plane’s networks don’t completely connect. The FAA is concerned. The proposed architecture of the 787…

  • The forefront of Internet 2.0+ and stuff

    Welcome to the world’s most dynamic eBusiness marketing, design and consulting agency. We provide distinct clients with groundbreaking business strategies and cutting-edge designs to aggressively and creatively compete in a changing economy. From the stunning website of Huhcorp. The sister site is even better. Does your PHP network have double back-end XHTML redundancy? Is your…

  • blog administration

    Nonessential update: if you are getting a feed, you can update the path /w/feed/ or /w/rss can have the “w/” drop since this is now the main page.

  • Update to blog

    We start the new year with a brand new design and link structure. If you have any trouble with access to pages or with RSS feeds, please drop me a line or leave a comment. thanks The Mngmt.

  • imitation hemingway winner repost

    I found this on Larry McVoy’s site, and repost it every now and then because it is so good. But I’d like to read a Cormac McCarthy version too.

  • Are programmers smarter than Hollywood writers after all?

    Don Marti in comments below notes Reruns of “I Love Lucy”  and “Knight Rider” don’t stop working when the studio fails to bring in writers to maintain them. Maybe the programmers are smarter after all.