links, random thoughts, various opinions
Home again, I do love visiting the U.S. So much energy and scale to everything. Lots to learn there. Lots to absorb. I do think however that me and everyone else at the airport could have done without the ‘threat condition orange’ announcements every five minutes.
No energy to post […]
Wikis in the Workplace
“Amy Cortese: The creative anarchy of the wiki is the philosophical inverse of conventional corporate groupware software. Groupware’s highly structured rules and processes do not always reflect the way people really work. Employees often ignore costly corporate-sanctioned software and revert to informal social networks — whether simply e-mail or impromptu […]
It’s a holiday up here in Canada. Sylloge (great Matrix links in this post) reminded me its Victoria day. We seem to have a holiday every month through spring and summer so tough to keep track.
Was just trying to find a detailed description of why Victoria day…but no luck with two […]
The Body Ugly
“We spend a lot of time figuring out how things function. What are the best solutions? How does one thing interact with another? What methodologies and processes make the most sense? How can I get the optimum out of my job, my time, my life? We optimize everything and constantly strive for perfection. […]
Why Scripting Languages Matter
Tim O’Reilly: “Unlike applications from the previous paradigm, web applications are not released in one to three year cycles. They are updated every day, sometimes every hour. Rather than being finished paintings, they are sketches.” [Ranchero]
We’ve been having a huge debate at work lately. Mainly a question of whether […]
Something new from Edward Tufte
“A modest step back from the PowerPoint culture is to limit one’s PowerPoint slides to charts and photos. If you can’t resist some text, limit yourself to an opening outline slide dense with structure and a closing summary to remind everyone of what they heard.
Why not step back more dramatically, though, […]
L Ron Jobs and the Church of Macintosh
“Since joining the Church of Macintosh, I have found peace and fulfilment. Finally, after years in the computing wilderness, I finally feel I have found somewhere that I belong. Don’t you want to belong?”
Geeking in the Third World
“Geekcorps volunteers work in third world countries helping companies become technically competent IT businesses. Richard Koman interviews Geekcorps founder Ethan Zuckerman. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O’Reilly Network]”
As I post this, I’m sitting on our couch at work…next to where the server for this particular blog sits (thanks Ryan) and I’m […]
Went out to White Rock today to visit my Mom and wish her Happy Mothers Day. We got together at my sisters place in White Rock, it was an amazing day to be out at her farm and take in all the love from these amazing women in my life.
My nephew Cody made a […]
Well I’ve decided on a URL…for now that is. It could have been bigmouth.ca, or confabulate.ca, maybe loquacious, or awellmademistake.ca…
But at the end of the day I chose llib.org. Basically it’s Bill backwards, and a homage to the backwards library in my head (where I remember things the way I want to). […]
Integrity in How You Sell
“Nobody’s getting rich quickly these days, but if you have a quality product and integrity in how you sell it, there’s lots of room for good growth out there.” Tim Bray in [Information Today] [Robb Beal’s Radio Weblog]”
The good ship Pisces.
Me relaxing…sort of.
A photo from my recent sailing trip, this is from Tugboat Island near Silva Bay. I was on the boat on the left, fantastic weather.
Grant’s jumped headlong into the web standards compliance, xml, rss game. Even more impressive is that he’s written his own database and software to produce his blog. Eventually I’m sure it will become its own standard. Well done. Of course what’s really nice is that it promotes content on his blog […]
Randy did the half run at the Vancouver International Marathon today, and apparently in a really good time. Very cool.
While I was away the last few days I got to see a small glimpse of our wired future. The boat I was on had a laptop equipped with a wireless internet connection. It’s through Telus [can’t find a product link]. Basically it’s a 9,600 kpbs connection that is online all the […]
Well I finally did it, after two and half years of non-stop work it seems…I took five days of legitimate vacation. Sailed around the Gulf Islands with some new and old friends; had a great time of sleeping, sailing, reading, eating and of talking away the night. I’ll have some photos up soon […]