Month: October 2006

  • The onset of decay

    Pretty picture, ain't it? Actually, it's what's happening to this blog, despite my good intentions. What we rail about over on the corporate blog and in our podcast — the orphaned blog — is beginning to happen here. I've got a million excuses, some of them pretty darn good. I'm blogging like a maniac for…

  • Intellectual homelessness

    I'm sad. Lotus Notes — which played a huge role in my career — has been vanquished more or less completely by Microsoft (though they won't stop attacking until the carcass has dessicated into dust). And its (formerly) thought-provoking leadership has apparently come down with an early case of Alzheimer's, is lost and looks like…

  • Can’t quite put that egg back together

    I remember reciting the Humpty-Dumpty rhyme for my kids. I know a lot of revisionist people think these nursery rhymes have a violent streak to them. But in this case, it's a pretty good message: break it, and you can't put it back together again. I wonder if there's an equivalent message for non-English speaking…

  • Amazing doesn’t describe it

    I’m in love…with WordPress. Since late July, I’ve been using this amazing system to produce blogs. What blows me away is that this system has all the features of industrial-strength commercial software. Having been in the software biz since the 70s, I never thought I’d ever be able to say that about an open-source, GPL-licensed…

  • Banal to you…and amazing to me

    My Google searching skills must be off…way off. I'd been trying for days to find an authoritative recommendation for when to switch from summer (actually All-Season) tires to snow tires. I just couldn't find anything other than the usual forum drivel. But then Tire Rack sent me instructions with the new winter tires I ordered…