Archive for December, 2006

Dec 19 2006

The Future Doesn’t Happen in America Anymore…

Published by David HM Spector under Internet, Technology

Wow… Great article, and, sadly, pretty much correct when it comes to the delivery of Infrastructure.

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Dec 11 2006

The Entire Blogospehere in a Nutshell

Published by David HM Spector under Blogs, Technology

…via Xkcd

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Dec 09 2006

Has software development jumped the shark?

Is software development all about putting together lots of other people’s code? Is there any real engineering and invention left to be done in mainstream applications?

That seems to be the debate at the world’s first Conference on Postmodern Programming recently held at the end of this past November in London sponsored by the Software Practice Advancement Group of the British Computer Society.

Hmmm… never thought of myself as a post-modernist writer (of code).. but…

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Dec 01 2006

Newt, Newt, You Big Galoot…

Published by David HM Spector under Politics

(with apologies to my old friend Ted, who used to say that whenever he heard Newt spew his garbage…)

By now Newt’s absolute hatred for both Freedom and America have been played and replay all over the airwaves and the blogosphere, but in the vein of fighting “bad speech” with “good speech,” I’d like to continue to pummel (rhetorically, of course) the disgraced ethically impaired ex-Speaker, Serial Liar and Serial Adulterer with some more ideas that probably won’t penetrate his thick and empty skull, but probably will resonate with most Americans who cherish their freedoms and love their country…

Let’s start by looking at some very plain words from a very famous man:

Restriction on free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

It doesn’t get any plainer than that. Who could put such a powerful maxim in such a compact package? Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas who sat on the High Court from 1939 until 1975.

Free Speech was, after all, probable the second most powerful founding idea of this country (the first being freedom from taxation without representation). It is American’s freedom to speak their minds, to criticize and in fact agitate for the (legal and non-violent) ouster of our government that has made America many people in the world would like to live in.

In America our freedom to speak covers not just political ideas, but all ideas. You can write science fiction stories or write new scientific theorems and each of them have equal weight, worth and validity in our system.

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