Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I grew up with duck and cover, fear obsession culminating in that abysmal, overdone, excessively histrionic Day After miniseries years ago. I grew up afraid; made more so, nay encouraged, by my own government. My government, which feared communism more than plague, hurricane, or other phenomena if one judges the amount of energy […]
Barrel Report: A tired third edition
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I went searching for anything of news to post here in the Bb Gun, but all I kept thinking as I reviewed the stop stories is: God, I’m bored. How many times must Niall Kennedy change jobs before it gets to be old news? How is releasing new information, or […]
Girl Geeks. Fact? Or Oxymoron?
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In her OPML weblog, Hilary questioned the seeming double standard of calling Dave Winer out for sexist behavior, but not dong the same with Maryam Scoble. She has a good point. I had noticed Scoble’s original posting related to BlogHer, where she wrote: Are you a a single male geek wondering why your love […]
Trifle Architecture
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When is software architecture like a desert trifle? When it’s in the hands of an imaginative Cal Henderson, software developer at Flickr. I’m both hungry and inspired to create something.
Gartner’s Hype Cycle
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Gartner has come out with a press release titled 2006 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle which …assesses the maturity, impact and adoption speed of 36 key technologies and trends during the next ten years. The report is broken down into three main categories: Web 2.0, Real World Web, and Application Architecture. I find myself agreeing […]
