Yesterday, while driving to the mall with my wife, I launched into a lecture on why the iPad and it’s Kindle’ly kindred will never replace books. As you are reading this on a 21st century blog you can infer that I am not a technophobic Luddite. Devices like the Kindle are another way to read and … Continue reading This Herodotus is a Hoot!
G20 fails to end G20
Last weekend I passed through Toronto. The city was bracing for the over priced and utterly pointless G20 dog and pony show. The G20 circus did not disappoint. On cue the usual crew of recreational anarchists left their parents basements long enough to engage the police, set cars on fire and smash store windows. The … Continue reading G20 fails to end G20
My Tag Wordle
I plugged my Delicious ID into Wordle and it made this picture of my popular tags. My current tag Wordle It’s a pretty accurate summary of what I’ve been thinking about for the last few months. We're all more predictable than we think!
I did not have sex with that Oil Spill!
I would like to thank BP for accidently creating a teachable moment for our political class. Prior to the gulf cluster-fuck the most ethical congress in history did not know that fluid dynamics is one of the hardest of the hard sciences. But, after two months of heroic attempts to contain the spill with blame games, … Continue reading I did not have sex with that Oil Spill!
The Real Problem with Enterprise Software
Only the gifted analytic minds of IT management and know it all programmers have the intelligence work ethic and superb taste required to select enterprise software. Speaking as an ITite, (one who works in IT), I can report that we are so gifted, so far-seeing, so utterly and totally awesome in our views that only … Continue reading The Real Problem with Enterprise Software
A C# .Net Class for calling J
One of my favorite programming tools is J. In skilled hands J is a spear in a world of bent spoons. In my day job I rarely encounter programming problems that cannot be brutally dispatched with a few dozen lines of J. Most accomplished J programmers laud the elegance and power of the language and … Continue reading A C# .Net Class for calling J
Plug the Damn Hole
I see Obama’s awesome intellect has been working overtime. I guess this is plan B after plan A was scuttled by a raging homophobe. Forgive my “hickness” but if a homophobe could actually plug the damn hole I would gladly overlook some queer queasiness.
Oh Crap Martin Gardner has Died!
Martin Gardner Last night I heard of Martin Gardner’s death at the age of ninety-five. When someone lives into their nineties death is not unexpected but in Gardner’s case it still saddens me. Martin Gardner’s famous Mathematical Games column set a standard for mathematical exposition that has yet to be equaled. He proved, month after … Continue reading Oh Crap Martin Gardner has Died!
Everybody Abandon Facebook Day
Yesterday was the first ever Everybody Draw Mohammed Day. My favorite Everybody Draw Mohammed cartoon is shown below. Da Glory-ass Koran For the troglodytes among us Everybody Draw Mohammed Day was a sarcastic reaction to years of bullying, death threats and fatwas issued against cartoonists for the horrible crime of drawing caricatures of Mohammed. The … Continue reading Everybody Abandon Facebook Day
The Reports of Library Death are Exaggerated
Not so long ago the pundits were predicting the Internet would kill public libraries. Boy were they wrong! Libraries have become the biggest and most successful Internet cafes around. I’ve been to Internet enabled public libraries all over the country and they are extremely busy. The downtown Los Angeles library has an entire room devoted … Continue reading The Reports of Library Death are Exaggerated
Analyze the Data not the Drivel 