links, random thoughts, various opinions
Red Mars: A Very Belated Appreciation
“Because now I’ve finally read Red Mars, and I am agog at what may be the finest sf novel I’ve ever read. Red Mars has all the hard-sf window-dressing that many of us imagine when we think of sf: great and accessible tours through speculative cog sci, geology, astronomy, […]
SVN posts about ‘Continued Commencement’. It’s from a commencement address at Hobart College by John Chapman in 1900…
“I have seen ten years of young men who rush out into the world with their messages, and when they find how deaf the world is, they think they must save their strength and wait. They believe […]
In the middle of about three weeks of travel again so I probably won’t get a chance to surf the web as much as usual and point to the odd articles I want to remember. Of course all depends on whether the hotel has internet. The Marriott Courtyard in Houston (Dallas St.) has […]
Red Hat, Microsoft clash at open source conference
“Companies, he said, that start with a perfect business plan don’t necessarily succeed. The business plan can cause missed opportunities. The key is not the business plan or model that the company is planning to use but simply listening to what customers want. What your customers want is […]
47873″>Building A Standards Compliant Website (3)
“People in the shipping industry who already use Navarik’s products, and want to know more about who made them. (Many of these users might work with Navarik’s software every day, but not know it until they notice a small “Service by Navarik” link at the bottom of a page. Since […]
Cursed By Oil, “Why are the Japanese making robots into humans, while Muslim suicide squads are making humans into robots?”
Our company launched a new web site today that I think does a much better job of explaining what we do…or at least the depth of it. In the end it was a process that brought a nice focus to what we’ve built in four years and are capable of doing now and in […]
Of course my interest in the U.S. Presidential process is heating up as the final stretch begins…a quick link roundup for today:
Public Domain. “The yawning divide between the Roman Catholic hierarchy and most Catholics is not usually an election story. But this year, it may become so. John Kerry is running as the first […]
The Real Terms Of The Google Deal
“This insulation from shareholder pressure has been criticized as arrogant and anti-democratic, but it is also prudent, I’m sad to say, since Google intends to run its business with an eye to risky, creative experiments that are poorly understood or tolerated by the public markets.”