On nothing more substantial than pure whim, I searched for “Statler and Waldorf heckle Obama” and “Joe Biden looks like Sam the Eagle” on the Internet. I found both. In a world where 1.6 billion (supposedly) intelligent beings generate and share information via an electronic network with over a trillion unique locations, it’s becoming [...]
Archive for October, 2009
All this has happened before and will happen again
Posted in Computing, Nonsense on October 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
How to kill off Word documents, Part II
Posted in Computing on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Part I being I’ve got it! An Intraweb! Oh wait , where I argued against the notion of One True System for organizational knowledge management and instead in favor of:
a) Deploying a set of readily available free web applications, b) Allowing users to post information wherever they prefer and,c) Making all the databases searchable via a single [...]
Google Wave: Not as Expected
Posted in Computing on October 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Having got hold of a Google Wave invite and playing with the application for two days, I must say Google has, for the first time ever, left me underwhelmed. I was expecting another one of their trademark minimalist applications with a fresh user interface idea. Alas, instead I got this:
Pros:
It’s realtime – you can actually [...]
Trouble in the Cloud
Posted in Computing on October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Let me tell you something nifty about the application I’m using to write this blog post (that is, Windows Live Writer). It doesn’t bother me with files, directories or file names. I only have to deal with constructs of the domain — blog posts, post title and which blog to post to. Once published, I don’t [...]
