links, random thoughts, various opinions
I’m at Incheon (Seoul, South Korea) airport waiting for my flight back to Vancouver where I’ll connect right away onward to Montreal. I’ll be there a couple of days then finally home again.
Have lots of thoughts about the trip and various blog items to rattle on about… hopefully some time to […]
Hello from Okpo, South Korea where I’m visiting Daewoo Shipbuilding. The scale is pretty amazing and the trip here was exhausting (two flights, a bus ride and a scary high speed 2 hour van drive at midnight)… but overall it’s going well. Hope to have some photos and commentary tomorrow. Spent a […]
One week at the Miraflores Locks (Panama Canal - 11 minute video). Hypnotic. (link c/o of BoingBoing).
I’ve been planning on getting a new TV this year… my current Wega from Sony has served me well but the flat screens have come way down in price and I could use the space in my apartment. For years my friends and I considered Sony the default best home electronics. A Sony […]
Phony Theory, False Conflict (Washington Post)
“How ridiculous to make evolution the enemy of God. What could be more elegant, more simple, more brilliant, more economical, more creative, indeed more divine than a planet with millions of life forms, distinct and yet interactive, all ultimately derived from accumulated variations in a single double-stranded molecule, pliable and […]
Can we fix the software development process with innovative management?
“Cooper starts from the proposition that software development projects are opaque to management, generally failures, and therefore management underfunds and understaffs them, hoping that, if failure is inevitable, at least it will be a cheaper failure.”
Design Leads & Wireframes
“I have always believed in the speed, breadth […]
The French Eat Their Young
“The French riots should be a wake-up call, but not for pouring billions of euros into the banlieues, as measures announced today by Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin would do. A visionary leader would seize the chance to dismantle an economic system that is eating its young.”
Couple of interesting tech links this weekend to keep an eye on… applies to all industries, especially ours.
Just Googling It Is Striking Fear Into Companies [NY Times Free Registration]
“Google, the reigning giant of Web search, could extend its economic reach in the next few years as more people get high-speed Internet service and cellphones become […]
A note for later, how to use my mac from anywhere via SSH.