Those of you that visit now and again probably noticed the month-long gap in posts — the slack period stems from System Technology Institute, a company that BOSS logic just purchased. I’ve been neck-deep in transition issues as we bring the new company online, modernize it and start inventing ways to reinvigorate the business. Now [...]
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Well, perhaps it’s not quite ready for public consumption. Nevertheless, D-Wave has succeeded in raising a reported $17 million toward some very serious research into quantum principles — research that will, if they succeed, completely change computing as we know it and solve some serious (but long-term) problems we’ll be facing. Scientific American wrote a [...]
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Do you have a FAQ? You’re looking at it. What is this site? This site is my personal weblog. I started it so that I could jot down ideas, share some thoughts and have a convenient place to develop various book concepts. You’ll also find a lot of more or less ranting and tidbits of [...]
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In this article on Daring Fireball John Gruber really nails how meaningful it is that Apple users can now run Windows on their Intel Macs. The essence of the matter: In the same way that Mac users found themselves in a race to go Classic-free after switching to OS X, and that running apps through [...]
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In an excellent strategic move Apple has release Boot Camp to public beta testing, officially supporting Windows on the new Intel Mac hardware. While I realize this probably horrifies many died-in-the-wool Mac evangelists, it’s a good move for Apple and it looks like the analysts agree, as reported by the Wall Street Journal: Roger Kay, [...]
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When we think of our worst presidents, usually Richard Nixon and Ulysses S. Grant come to mind. But, as Mike Papantonio on Ring of Fire quite clearly expressed in his January 21 podcast, that’s all in the past. With Bush’s approval ratings hitting an all-time low, we learn that 80% of American historians now consider [...]
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In the early 1980′s Jonathan Postel set forth the genesis of Internet domain classification by using the ISO 3166 standard, a global list of country names, as the basis for domain extensions. We’re also familiar with the dot-com and dot-net domains (such as bosslogic.com). Mr. Postel originally decided to use the ISO 3166 standard as [...]
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You could teach a whole marketing class from this short video. Microsoft spokesman Tom Pilla on Tuesday confirmed with iPod Observer that his company initiated the creation of the iPod packaging parody video reported last month. “It was an internal-only video clip commissioned by our packaging [team] to humorously highlight the challenges we have faced [...]
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Here’s a little bit more good press for the Bush administration. Just a little more adding to the body of work here, and here, and here, and here, and here… But seriously, how can we not proceed? “How are the same Republicans, who tried to impeach a president over whether he misled a nation about [...]
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Oh my god. It’s a gift wrapped head. Seriously though, you can waste a lot of time looking at the cute posts here. (But I should be more concerned as to why I found this via a reference from my brother-in-law…) Update: And now he’s got his own mission posted on the site.
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Dell is on top. Well, at least they’ve been on top, although some might argue they’re slipping a bit. Anyhow, Dell figured out how to sell into multiple markets and hold on to that market share. Sun, HP and others seem to have forgotten (or perhaps they never learned). More than once though, the Sun [...]
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After noticing that VoodooPad achieved first place winner in O’Reilly’s Mac OS X Innovators Contest U.S. category, round two, I thought I’d take a quick look at it. After playing around for about ten minutes, I’ve got to say it’s a pretty impressive little application — great for building personal Wikis of notes and certainly [...]
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This is me. Martial artist, zen student, programmer, writer and author, technologist, father of two, photographer and a resident of Los Angeles (well, the outskirts of it).
I also publish Rational Scrum and am President & CEO of Hyrax International LLC, delivering comprehensive process improvements to its clientele. Specialities include audit and assessment of program areas such as project management, quality assurance, risk management and customer satisfaction as well as delivering focused initiatives to improve customer efficiency.
