links, random thoughts, various opinions
Several years ago a friend of mine pointed me to the work of Jane Jacobs. Since then I’ve had the chance to read most of her books and hear her speak. I have been moved to a way of thinking about life and living in cities that underlies a lot of how I view […]
Home in Vancouver over the weekend. The weather has been spectacular and the flight as we flew in over Whistler reminded me again why I love coming home so much. I haven’t spent a spring in my new place and in the short time I’ve gone the trees outside my window are now […]
Beaver Overthinking Dam (c/o The Onion)
“In the past four months, Messner, 4, has visited hundreds of other dams and drawn up detailed and extensive blueprints. He has researched topics ranging from advanced dome acoustics to the near-extinction of the North American beaver in the early 20th century, and plans to incorporate much of his research […]
I’ve started to read the Vancouver Housing Market Blog. It’s a good read on the (over)-exuberance of the market in Vancouver. Being in London these days I found the recent post (and link to Globe article on London) particularly accurate.
He writes…
“We have occasionally heard comparisons of Vancouver to London or New York as […]
Morning View From My Hotel
Well it’s the end of a very busy week in London. It’s been great to get back out on the road. With my wrists broken/repairing for so long and so much going on at the office I sort of fell out of my usual traveling habits.
We’ve had an excellent […]
Several Asinine and/or Risky Ideas Regarding Apple’s Strategy That Boot Camp Does Not Portend
“Regarding anything related to Apple’s strategy going forward, it’s essential to keep in mind just how Apple functions as a business. It’s not very complicated. Apple now has two fundamental businesses: selling Macintosh computers and selling iPods. And I think if you […]
Shared-Discovery Blogging
“Hey there are already lots of ways of having conversations on the net, email, IM, mail lists, usenet. We hardly need another way to have conversation.
I blog to share discoveries, large and small, mundane and profound and everything inbetween.”
I agree, but I mostly blog for myself (and I know my Mom and at least […]
Back in London for a few days. This is a shot of Canary Wharf as we prepared to land at Heathrow. Staying at the Radisson again which (finally) has wifi… and free no less. It’s getting harder to complain about internet access in London hotels. It’s colder than I expected too. […]
GM took quite a hard wrap this week for a contest that let web users create their own ads about the Chevy Tahoe. Anyways some of the ads got pretty aggressive on GM’s record on climate change. To their credit GM recognized this might happen and even responded on their blog… with some […]
As if I didn’t have enough television inadequacies already… now this shows up.
Is Anyone Out There Listening?
“Admittedly, I’ve never been in charge of a large company, but I am exasperated by the growing trend of putting obstacles in the way of getting support that serve no other purpose than to slow the customer down. I can understand having a “tier 1″ support and then higher level support […]
Quite a few books on the go these days… one of them about to be added to the list is Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing…
“Everyware is an attempt to describe the form computing will take in the next few years. Specifically, it’s about a vision of processing power so distributed throughout the […]