Dec 31 2007
XKCD: Best Geek Comic Strip EVA’
Randall Munroe’s exceptionally wonderful strip about “Romance, Sarcasm, Math and Language”…
Archive for December, 2007
Dec 21 2007
It’s All About the Data
Lately, in preparation for any number of projects on my plate now and into 2008, I have been trying to brush up on my data visualization skillz’ and so I’ve been turning to a few books that seem to be the core of the interactive visualization movement that been dominating ‘web2.0′. (You can [...]
Dec 19 2007
Java 6 on Leopard: Told ‘ya so…
According to MacRumors, Apple has seeded Java6 for OS X 10.5 (Leopard). So, it looks like the rumors of Java’s death under OS X were … uhm .. exaggerated.
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Dec 17 2007
Happy Birthday Andrew Mahon… where ever you are.
Seeing how my forty-<mumble>-th birthday is just 14 days away and I am pondering the ennui of my middle-age, my thoughts drifted to someone whom I haven’t seen in, well, more than 1/2 my life now… my best friend growing up, a really sweet guy named Andrew Mahon. He’s 2-weeks older than me; we used to be inseparable as [...]
Dec 03 2007
AT&T’s CEO: Idiot or Genius? You be the judge…
Quite a big deal has been made of AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson’s diarrhea of the mouth this past week where he more or less pre-announced a 3G iPhone coming in 2008 from Apple. Cringely esitmates that this may well cost Apple over $1 billion in holiday sales, and that this was a calculated effort on the [...]