Category: General
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Really Interesting Tale of Tracking Down a Bug
I found Anatomy of a Software Bug to be fascinating. Now, I’m a bit of a geek, but I think most people would be interested in this in a detective story kind of way. It basically walks the reader through an error in an old version of Microsoft Word and explores some of the differences…
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Interesting Moral Dilemas
What if… presents a series of ethical thought experiments. I was kind of turned off when I read the first thought experiment which was really transparent. However, the second twist on the trolley experiment was interesting. I think I can rationalize my choices, but even still, I feel like I’m less consistent in my thinking…
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Let’s Get Gummy
This morning, I was watching TV, and I saw an ad for Gummy vitamins. I think that is brilliant. In fact, I rewound the TiVo just to make sure I really saw what I thought I saw. However, as genius an idea as that seems to me, it pales in comparison to the Carma* Sutra…
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Preach On Brother
In a mirror universe where up is down and left is right, President Bush reads speeches written by children. Zoe Baker’s is my favorite.
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Taste the Joy
Mmmmmmm…. Steak: Argentina On Two Steaks A Day makes me want to pack my bags and my knife and fork jump on a plane. It’s true. I think I have to go to Argentina now. But first, maybe another trip to Samba, which is Brazilian rather than Argentinean, but still dang tasty and requires a…
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Excel Tips and Techniques
Man, and all this time, I’ve been creating manual groupings for my pivot tables. How on earth did I miss that Excel will do that for me? Doh! Excel Tips and Techniques
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Don’t Trust Electronic Voting Machines
BlackBoxVoting has completed log analysis of 40 touch screen voting machines in Florida and found multiple problems. They don’t go so far as to label it voter fraud yet, but I do. Proof of Vote Fraud in 2004 Florida Election. Don’t accept this America!
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Interesting Presentation
Dick Hardt’s Keynote at Identity 2.0 was pretty interesting. It seems to me that the browser is more likely to be where something like this happens, but I’d never heard of any of the companies he mentions at the end, so I’m clearly out of the loop on a bunch of that stuff.
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Mayan Astronomy
Some interesting speculation into why the Mayans chose 2012 for the end of their calendar.
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Q & Aha
Interesting experiment in teaching kids binary arithmetic using The Socratic Method.