Further securing Buzz Out Loud as my new favorite podcast (edging out the Cranky guys), Molly’s just-say-no position on Apple Software struck a chord. When the anti-virus software packages start targeting Safari auto-installs (as reported on Buzz) you know it’s time. According to Buzz, a recent reply from Apple to a frustrated user’s quest to […]
My Zune has become, in no small way, my pre-Singularity foolscap. Through it, I am enjoying a personal renaissance in my thirst for diverse learning. Many (esp. my sons) would think it strange that I rarely use my Zune for music. I’m sure I would if I had more music listening time in my day. What […]
I will be blogging from MIX08 in Las Vegas all next week. This is my first MIX. Really looking forward to it!
The Windows Live team has been very busy of late. They’re the hottest part of Microsoft these days. I’ve just installed and am trying out “Windows Live Writer” which supports web log posting. Here are a few icons I’ve created for an application I’m working on (details in February from New Orleans).
Edit: 01-Jan-08, On the […]
There’s a big hullabaloo today in the global blogosphere. “Blog Action Day”. While it’s an interesting experiment in internet-assisted awareness generation, tomorrow and next week it will mostly be forgotten. Let’s watch.
Sure, I care about the environment. But one recycled newspaper at a time isn’t going to get us there. If the projections of technology’s […]
Having the three months of Summer Vacation was great. I must figure out a way to make a habit of it. I’ve learned several things worth noting during this break—some surprising, others less so:
I missed being attached to HP more than expected: The intensity of the loss of ‘family ties’ hit me harder than I […]
Spent an hour with the slab of Texas Cream limestone today. Next to marble, this is like carving butter. Looking forward to more time on this.
Thinking about carving an abstract torso “plant stand” into the large block of Crema Español (a particularly attractive variety of marble from Spain) I’ve been holding on to for a […]
Growing up in the 60s and 70s in rural America, one had little reason not to be optimistic about the future (though, of course, some of us had the Book of Revelation keeping us in a cold sweat). The baby boomer’s had every reason to believe they would match and exceed the abundance of their […]
You know it’s a mainstream idea when Cringely devotes his weekly column to the topic. Late last week, he wrote Surviving Immortality: just getting to the Singularity is the hard part which is a fairly balanced introduction to the notion of a Technological Singularity.
Having long been a follower of Kurzweil’s writings, I’ve been reading about […]
Part of my current daily ritual (being a die-hard tech geek and all) is my morning dose of technology & world news. Here are a few feeds that I rarely miss day to day:
KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News hosted by Ray Kurzweil, one of my favorite authors. (also available as a daily email)
Slashdot: News for […]