So if you buy into Christian theology, at some point around 0ce a baby was born who was named Jesus. Of course the later church co-opted a perfectly good pagan holiday, solistice, to celebrate his birth. Liturgically, it makes sense that in the midst of the coldest and darkest days that we should be called upon to contemplate his birth. However, as the Jehovah Witness reminded me, he must have been born sometime in the spring if you want to put the whole story together with any logic. But I digress. The point is that this is the season to consider this baby, this season and ponder its meaning.
This baby came into the world like any other; innocent, frightened, full of wonder and anticipation. Oh how alien he must have felt growing up as he realized how different he was from his parents and the people around him. Why was he here? What is his calling? Perhaps even feeling put upon by everyone's expectations of him. There would have been many dark nights he spent all alone pondering his condition, his place, and wondering what he should do next. We want to think he had it all worked out right from the start but I doubt it. It is the everyman story that gives Christian theology its entre. How could we relate to some supreme being? But how easy it is to listen to or even project outselves into this all to human man who had what must have been a rough life.
That is what I choose to spend tonight thinking about.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Mattel Mind Flex
The most intriguing booth has to be the Mattel both at the Sands. They are showing a toy that allows you control of a ball with your mind. You strap on a headband and a couple ear clips. You can learn to control the height of the ball using your alpha and beta brain waves. More at http://www.mindflexgames.com/
CES 2009, Saturday
I find the proliferation of wall suckers really annoying. Even more so now that the voltages are becoming more standardized. Why do I need one for my cell phone different from my headset? If Motorola came out with a headset that could plug into the cell phone so they could both charge at the same time, i think it would be a winner. Someone suggested that they make too much money selling cords to do something as logical as that. Maybe he's right.
Panasonic is touting it's super thin tv. They say it's 1/3 inches thick. They conventiently ignore the 1.5 inch box at the bottom. Good luck trying to put this flat on the wall. And what difference does it make if it's 1.5 inch over the whole screen??
One of my mates says that the Japanese vending industry uses face recognition to estimate age for vending liquor. Clever Japanese children have started holding up picture to fool the machine.
Another mate suggested the name Ann Ominous. The double entendre is very good.
Panasonic is touting it's super thin tv. They say it's 1/3 inches thick. They conventiently ignore the 1.5 inch box at the bottom. Good luck trying to put this flat on the wall. And what difference does it make if it's 1.5 inch over the whole screen??
One of my mates says that the Japanese vending industry uses face recognition to estimate age for vending liquor. Clever Japanese children have started holding up picture to fool the machine.
Another mate suggested the name Ann Ominous. The double entendre is very good.
CES 2009, Friday
At the intel booth, they had a circular display with glass panel displays right out of the Minority Report. To demonstrate the speed of their I7 processor, you can point to an object on the screen and move it around. This is similar to what Microsoft was showing across the aisle on a monitor. For a shared virtual workspace, this should be a winner. However there seem to be some bugs.
While at MS, two gentleman at the next display were both pointing at the screen trying to do things. They crashed the system. Apparantly the max number of touch points that the system will recognize is two. If you go wild with many touch points, the system eventually overloads. Since my first thought at the Intel booth was along the lines of the shared desktop a la Terry Winograd at Stanford, this wouldn't work. Instead of a matrix read of the touch points, the technology will need to be something more like capacitance so many simultaneous touch points can be accepted.
SWAG
Given the economy, it is no surprise that the swag is less this year. Some people live for that stuff but how many trinkets do you need in one life? But one handout struck me. Someone was passing out small bottles of hand sanitizer. Now since they don't have their name on it, I don't know who. But wouldn't this be a perfect item for Symantec?
At the Intel booth, one of the more interesting items was a high-end machine designed for the retail market. To deal with the cooling issues, they have encased the entire machine in a fluid that is circulated with a pump. Apparantly they had tried mineral oil in an earlier prototype but it was too viscous and not friendly with some of the components. This fluid is not dissimilar but proprietary. It has a clear panel and blue lights in it. While the specs give it a drool factor for anyone who is a high-end gamer, it looks like something more intended for prestige and wow than as a solution for a problem. With a retail price that bottoms out at $3700 and can go as high as $10,000 fully loaded, this is not destined for too many teen ager's bedrooms, no matter how indulgent their parents.
When HD isn't enough
Panasonic was hawking standards above 1080i. They were showing several monitors which had resolutions up to 4x that standard. I couldn't see the difference and without source material I wonder what advantage there would be.
Benefit Denial as Theft Deterence
In the CES Today newspaper, they were talking about new packaging for BluRay disks. Since retailers are continually concerned about inventory shrinkage, anything that will help them gets attention. The latest concept is to require activation of the product, either at the POS or at home via the internet. If Comcast and AT&T ever deliver on their high-bandwidth products, why would we even care about packaging any more?
High Design
Like an island of calm and sanity in the hubbub of the floor, Memorex had a booth which was focused on high-design. In a pristine white environement with products lovely to behold, they were promoting their design esthetic more than anything else. But for me they give design a bad name since it is that artsy-fartsy type with inscrutable controls and minimalistic appearance. They are more akin to the monolith in 2001 than consumer electronic devices. It feels condescending as if you need to be in the know to appreaciate their products.
Bug Labs
For a second year, Bug Labs is back with in production products. Their concept is to have a roll-your-own kind of consumer product. With GPS module, audio module, keypad module, display module, FM tuner module and perhaps others I've forgotten, you plug 4 things into a base and you get a complete product. Later when you needs change, you reconfigure it. It makes a dandy toy but I'm not sure it will be a viable product.
USB drives
One of the obvious design flaws I see with USB drives is that they protrude from the laptop and are highly vulnerable if your laptop slips. You can easily loose the drive, the socket or potentially you motherboard given the leverage inherent. My presentation mouse has a small extender for a USB which mitigates, but doesn't remove this vulnerability. While I want cheap USB drives, I'd still like to see one that offers some flex at the plug to reduce this risk.
It's a wireless world afterall...
Our response to the paperless world of the web has been an incredible increase in the amount we print at home. Now with everything going wireless, we seem to have a proliferation of wires around the house. At night the cell phone needs to be plugged in, also the headset, the PDA, and an endless list of other devices. We need to run wires for the speakers in a 6.1 home theater, for the cable and lights. One company, Flatwire, is showing a new product that uses the same ribbon cable methods found inside computers to solve this problem. You can glue these onto walls and paint right over them to provide low voltage lighting or speaker cabling.
Another solution to powering remote controls comes from PowerCast. These people have a way to provide a trickle charge to a device within a few feet of a base station. They brought out a line of glowing xmas tree ornaments using the technology. Unlike some other solutions which are designed for one-to-one arrangements such as a power mat, they are focusing on one-to-many such as remote controls or lighting. There is some potential for this in the hospitality industry which is grappling with multiple remote controls and the labor to continually refresh the batteries. They offer a tray for the maid to place all the controls. While in the tray they will get a trickle charge giving a maintenance free device for the length of the shelf-life of the battery.
While at MS, two gentleman at the next display were both pointing at the screen trying to do things. They crashed the system. Apparantly the max number of touch points that the system will recognize is two. If you go wild with many touch points, the system eventually overloads. Since my first thought at the Intel booth was along the lines of the shared desktop a la Terry Winograd at Stanford, this wouldn't work. Instead of a matrix read of the touch points, the technology will need to be something more like capacitance so many simultaneous touch points can be accepted.
SWAG
Given the economy, it is no surprise that the swag is less this year. Some people live for that stuff but how many trinkets do you need in one life? But one handout struck me. Someone was passing out small bottles of hand sanitizer. Now since they don't have their name on it, I don't know who. But wouldn't this be a perfect item for Symantec?
At the Intel booth, one of the more interesting items was a high-end machine designed for the retail market. To deal with the cooling issues, they have encased the entire machine in a fluid that is circulated with a pump. Apparantly they had tried mineral oil in an earlier prototype but it was too viscous and not friendly with some of the components. This fluid is not dissimilar but proprietary. It has a clear panel and blue lights in it. While the specs give it a drool factor for anyone who is a high-end gamer, it looks like something more intended for prestige and wow than as a solution for a problem. With a retail price that bottoms out at $3700 and can go as high as $10,000 fully loaded, this is not destined for too many teen ager's bedrooms, no matter how indulgent their parents.
When HD isn't enough
Panasonic was hawking standards above 1080i. They were showing several monitors which had resolutions up to 4x that standard. I couldn't see the difference and without source material I wonder what advantage there would be.
Benefit Denial as Theft Deterence
In the CES Today newspaper, they were talking about new packaging for BluRay disks. Since retailers are continually concerned about inventory shrinkage, anything that will help them gets attention. The latest concept is to require activation of the product, either at the POS or at home via the internet. If Comcast and AT&T ever deliver on their high-bandwidth products, why would we even care about packaging any more?
High Design
Like an island of calm and sanity in the hubbub of the floor, Memorex had a booth which was focused on high-design. In a pristine white environement with products lovely to behold, they were promoting their design esthetic more than anything else. But for me they give design a bad name since it is that artsy-fartsy type with inscrutable controls and minimalistic appearance. They are more akin to the monolith in 2001 than consumer electronic devices. It feels condescending as if you need to be in the know to appreaciate their products.
Bug Labs
For a second year, Bug Labs is back with in production products. Their concept is to have a roll-your-own kind of consumer product. With GPS module, audio module, keypad module, display module, FM tuner module and perhaps others I've forgotten, you plug 4 things into a base and you get a complete product. Later when you needs change, you reconfigure it. It makes a dandy toy but I'm not sure it will be a viable product.
USB drives
One of the obvious design flaws I see with USB drives is that they protrude from the laptop and are highly vulnerable if your laptop slips. You can easily loose the drive, the socket or potentially you motherboard given the leverage inherent. My presentation mouse has a small extender for a USB which mitigates, but doesn't remove this vulnerability. While I want cheap USB drives, I'd still like to see one that offers some flex at the plug to reduce this risk.
It's a wireless world afterall...
Our response to the paperless world of the web has been an incredible increase in the amount we print at home. Now with everything going wireless, we seem to have a proliferation of wires around the house. At night the cell phone needs to be plugged in, also the headset, the PDA, and an endless list of other devices. We need to run wires for the speakers in a 6.1 home theater, for the cable and lights. One company, Flatwire, is showing a new product that uses the same ribbon cable methods found inside computers to solve this problem. You can glue these onto walls and paint right over them to provide low voltage lighting or speaker cabling.
Another solution to powering remote controls comes from PowerCast. These people have a way to provide a trickle charge to a device within a few feet of a base station. They brought out a line of glowing xmas tree ornaments using the technology. Unlike some other solutions which are designed for one-to-one arrangements such as a power mat, they are focusing on one-to-many such as remote controls or lighting. There is some potential for this in the hospitality industry which is grappling with multiple remote controls and the labor to continually refresh the batteries. They offer a tray for the maid to place all the controls. While in the tray they will get a trickle charge giving a maintenance free device for the length of the shelf-life of the battery.
CES 2009, Wednesday & Thursday
The hotel wanted $10/day for WiFi so most of my blogging this week is offline with just one post online in realtime.
January 8, 2009
My focus while here this year is on product design. There are enough failures of product design in everyday life to keep an angry white man busy for a lifetime. A fair treatment of these issues would balance the design failure with more thought on why it occurred. That can come later. For now I’m just going to rant on them.
Electronic Locks
It starts at the door to my hotel room. Hotels have adopted the new electronic locks for the guest rooms. I haven’t given them too many thoughts but they are rife with design failures. Mine has 3 lights. When it accepts my swipe, it flashes both the red and the green lights. OK, green makes sense. But why red? For me, it doesn’t make much difference since my hearing is good enough that I can hear the gears turn so the lights, of any color, are superfluous. But if I couldn’t hear that and depended on the visual clue to know that it was now unlocked? And what does an invalid card do? It flashes yellow. Now if there was a logical use for the red light, I’d say that an invalid card is as good as it gets. It looks like the device has GYR lights and someone was driven to find a way to use all of them instead of just ignoring the yellow. Of course these devices have the mag-stripe technology so they are prone to all the problems of that technology as well. The New York City transit population has done a good job documenting all the hassles this new technology brought.
Power Off WiFi Switch
Tim is irritated that the WiFi power switch on his HP laptop is so easily thrown that it accidentally turns off the WiFi when he is just moving the machine around. I can kind of get why this design flaw snuck through the process and I see that it seems to have been corrected. His is one of the HP laptops that first had the feature. On his model, the switch protrudes enough that the knurling on the switch will catch on clothing. Then the resistance in the switch is minimal enough that even a gentle movement will throw it.
This clearly shows the subtlety of product design. Had this switch protruded less, had less aggressive knurling or greater resistance to change, the flaw would have been avoided. Yet if any of these fixes were taken too far, they would also create a different design flaw. The solution is a balancing that requires judgment and experience.
The Magnavox TV Remote
Like virtually every hotel room, this one has a tv with a remote to control it. It has buttons labeled:
· power
· chan+, chan-
· vol+, vol-
· mute
· cc
· prev chan
· code search
· 0-9
· enter
· sleep
This remote has a lot going for it relative to most remotes, most notably, a lack of superfluous buttons with strange sounding abbreviations. Yet, even in this restricted vocabulary, the perpetuate design flaws shared with remote controls spanning generations. The code search button is utterly useless for the normal operation of the tv. Yet it has the second most prominent position on the control, just below the primary point where a person’s right thumb would fall. We’ve done extensive analysis on coding schemes that give the most frequent tokens the shortest symbols. Yet when it come to remote controls we seem incapable of thinking through where the choicest real estate on the control surface is and matching it to the most frequent functions. Did they really think that code search would be more frequently used than enter? I hope not.
Another issue with this device is the arrangement and shape of the keys. To its credit, there is diversity on this control, unlike many others on the market. Yet they seemed to be unable to think through how to use it. The chan and vol buttons are arrayed in a circle with north and south being chan and east and west being vol. The mute button is in the middle. They did a good job putting this wheel right where the thumb would go. While chan up and down make logical sense, how can you think of volume as left and right? The only association you can make is a slider control. For my taste, I’d sooner see vol be up and down and chan as left and right.
January 9, 2009
Security at the Show
You’d think that a show dedicated to consumer electronics might give some thought to electronic security. After all companies like Symantec exhibit here. Yet the scores of machines set-up for public access were completely open including USB ports. This allows anyone as competent as a high-school geek to load key capture software and blithely collect people’s passwords as they login to their web-based email systems. Hmmm.
3D TV?
Samsung is exhibiting a 3D television this year. As a technological achievement, it is impressive. Unlike the theaters that exhibit 3D movies, this screen requires no glasses. The only drawback I saw is that there are sweet spots and you will see a blurry image if you are not in one. It only required a movement of a couple inches to find one however. In addition, they also showed a 2D to 3D converter. Paradoxically, this required glasses.
The question that this raises is the potential for 3D. This has obviously been tried since the 50s and it continues to be more of a novelty. IMHO if Hollywood had been able to find a way to enhance story telling using 3D, there would have been at least one notable film using it by now. The true potential for 3D may be in the gaming experience. If so, the TV screen is not going to be the medium, it will be the computer screen.
Besides Samsung, Intel featured scenes from Pixar's Monsters v Aliens including a life blob walking around to attract attention. What they showed required glasses and used what they called circular-polarization. The advantage of circular polarization is that unlike regular polarization, if you twist your head you don't loose the effect.
I'm told Nvidia also showed 3d.
Phoenix Hyperdrive
The Achilles heel of Microsoft has been its bloat-ware. For years they have been dedicated to a single load module for all of their products that includes all the features that anyone in the market might want. A more logical approach to the market would have been product fragmentation which would have kept the product smaller and easier to use. Now the OS and all its apps take forever to load and reached a tipping point in the market that has created a backlash.
That backlash is seen in this year’s show. Phoenix is offering a product that creates a simple OS that loads after the bootstrap but before the OS. This allows virtualization of the OS and insulates the user from a blue screen of death. Since they had the good sense to keep this very small and simple, it loads almost instantly. They the OS can take as long as it likes and you are free to browse the web or look at email while it does. So what took them so long? The next logical step is why have Windows at all?
As if they saw this coming, Microsoft seems to have focused on the extended load time for Vista as one of the features they needed to provide. Balmer’s announcement of Windows 7 focuses on the 15 second start of the OS.
Cable TV
It is almost meaningless to talk about broadcast tv anymore. The people I know who do not use a service are outliers. I had used Comcast for years and I was very excited about what their CEO said about the service last year. He boasted that he would have the entire country rewired for a faster service by the end of the year. Well the year passed and as a subscriber I heard nothing about it.
While Comcast was posturing, AT&T was diligently working on their U-Verse offering. I converted last month and I’m happy with the service. Ironically, the only feature that made a difference to me was the ability to view my DVR recordings from a satellite tv, something Comcast could have easily offered by just replacing the set-top boxes and no investment in their infrastructure. I skipped their keynote this year but I am going to stop by their booth and see what marketing messages they are sending out now.
U-Verse has no presence here.
The Spectacle
Of course LV is all about spectacle. Even a normal trade-show is about spectacle. The combo is heady. To add to the surrealism, this year the Adult Entertainment Expo (porn) completely coincides with CES and even shares one of the convention centers (the Sands). One of my mates even had a conversation with one of the CES cuties who admitted to having had a prior career that would have made her eligible for an AVN award in the past.
January 8, 2009
My focus while here this year is on product design. There are enough failures of product design in everyday life to keep an angry white man busy for a lifetime. A fair treatment of these issues would balance the design failure with more thought on why it occurred. That can come later. For now I’m just going to rant on them.
Electronic Locks
It starts at the door to my hotel room. Hotels have adopted the new electronic locks for the guest rooms. I haven’t given them too many thoughts but they are rife with design failures. Mine has 3 lights. When it accepts my swipe, it flashes both the red and the green lights. OK, green makes sense. But why red? For me, it doesn’t make much difference since my hearing is good enough that I can hear the gears turn so the lights, of any color, are superfluous. But if I couldn’t hear that and depended on the visual clue to know that it was now unlocked? And what does an invalid card do? It flashes yellow. Now if there was a logical use for the red light, I’d say that an invalid card is as good as it gets. It looks like the device has GYR lights and someone was driven to find a way to use all of them instead of just ignoring the yellow. Of course these devices have the mag-stripe technology so they are prone to all the problems of that technology as well. The New York City transit population has done a good job documenting all the hassles this new technology brought.
Power Off WiFi Switch
Tim is irritated that the WiFi power switch on his HP laptop is so easily thrown that it accidentally turns off the WiFi when he is just moving the machine around. I can kind of get why this design flaw snuck through the process and I see that it seems to have been corrected. His is one of the HP laptops that first had the feature. On his model, the switch protrudes enough that the knurling on the switch will catch on clothing. Then the resistance in the switch is minimal enough that even a gentle movement will throw it.
This clearly shows the subtlety of product design. Had this switch protruded less, had less aggressive knurling or greater resistance to change, the flaw would have been avoided. Yet if any of these fixes were taken too far, they would also create a different design flaw. The solution is a balancing that requires judgment and experience.
The Magnavox TV Remote
Like virtually every hotel room, this one has a tv with a remote to control it. It has buttons labeled:
· power
· chan+, chan-
· vol+, vol-
· mute
· cc
· prev chan
· code search
· 0-9
· enter
· sleep
This remote has a lot going for it relative to most remotes, most notably, a lack of superfluous buttons with strange sounding abbreviations. Yet, even in this restricted vocabulary, the perpetuate design flaws shared with remote controls spanning generations. The code search button is utterly useless for the normal operation of the tv. Yet it has the second most prominent position on the control, just below the primary point where a person’s right thumb would fall. We’ve done extensive analysis on coding schemes that give the most frequent tokens the shortest symbols. Yet when it come to remote controls we seem incapable of thinking through where the choicest real estate on the control surface is and matching it to the most frequent functions. Did they really think that code search would be more frequently used than enter? I hope not.
Another issue with this device is the arrangement and shape of the keys. To its credit, there is diversity on this control, unlike many others on the market. Yet they seemed to be unable to think through how to use it. The chan and vol buttons are arrayed in a circle with north and south being chan and east and west being vol. The mute button is in the middle. They did a good job putting this wheel right where the thumb would go. While chan up and down make logical sense, how can you think of volume as left and right? The only association you can make is a slider control. For my taste, I’d sooner see vol be up and down and chan as left and right.
January 9, 2009
Security at the Show
You’d think that a show dedicated to consumer electronics might give some thought to electronic security. After all companies like Symantec exhibit here. Yet the scores of machines set-up for public access were completely open including USB ports. This allows anyone as competent as a high-school geek to load key capture software and blithely collect people’s passwords as they login to their web-based email systems. Hmmm.
3D TV?
Samsung is exhibiting a 3D television this year. As a technological achievement, it is impressive. Unlike the theaters that exhibit 3D movies, this screen requires no glasses. The only drawback I saw is that there are sweet spots and you will see a blurry image if you are not in one. It only required a movement of a couple inches to find one however. In addition, they also showed a 2D to 3D converter. Paradoxically, this required glasses.
The question that this raises is the potential for 3D. This has obviously been tried since the 50s and it continues to be more of a novelty. IMHO if Hollywood had been able to find a way to enhance story telling using 3D, there would have been at least one notable film using it by now. The true potential for 3D may be in the gaming experience. If so, the TV screen is not going to be the medium, it will be the computer screen.
Besides Samsung, Intel featured scenes from Pixar's Monsters v Aliens including a life blob walking around to attract attention. What they showed required glasses and used what they called circular-polarization. The advantage of circular polarization is that unlike regular polarization, if you twist your head you don't loose the effect.
I'm told Nvidia also showed 3d.
Phoenix Hyperdrive
The Achilles heel of Microsoft has been its bloat-ware. For years they have been dedicated to a single load module for all of their products that includes all the features that anyone in the market might want. A more logical approach to the market would have been product fragmentation which would have kept the product smaller and easier to use. Now the OS and all its apps take forever to load and reached a tipping point in the market that has created a backlash.
That backlash is seen in this year’s show. Phoenix is offering a product that creates a simple OS that loads after the bootstrap but before the OS. This allows virtualization of the OS and insulates the user from a blue screen of death. Since they had the good sense to keep this very small and simple, it loads almost instantly. They the OS can take as long as it likes and you are free to browse the web or look at email while it does. So what took them so long? The next logical step is why have Windows at all?
As if they saw this coming, Microsoft seems to have focused on the extended load time for Vista as one of the features they needed to provide. Balmer’s announcement of Windows 7 focuses on the 15 second start of the OS.
Cable TV
It is almost meaningless to talk about broadcast tv anymore. The people I know who do not use a service are outliers. I had used Comcast for years and I was very excited about what their CEO said about the service last year. He boasted that he would have the entire country rewired for a faster service by the end of the year. Well the year passed and as a subscriber I heard nothing about it.
While Comcast was posturing, AT&T was diligently working on their U-Verse offering. I converted last month and I’m happy with the service. Ironically, the only feature that made a difference to me was the ability to view my DVR recordings from a satellite tv, something Comcast could have easily offered by just replacing the set-top boxes and no investment in their infrastructure. I skipped their keynote this year but I am going to stop by their booth and see what marketing messages they are sending out now.
U-Verse has no presence here.
The Spectacle
Of course LV is all about spectacle. Even a normal trade-show is about spectacle. The combo is heady. To add to the surrealism, this year the Adult Entertainment Expo (porn) completely coincides with CES and even shares one of the convention centers (the Sands). One of my mates even had a conversation with one of the CES cuties who admitted to having had a prior career that would have made her eligible for an AVN award in the past.
Friday, January 2, 2009
What's Happening at UC Davis?
I'm currently pursuing a master's degree at California State University at Sacramento in Software Engineering. Since I don't know if I'll want to pursue a PhD I keep my eyes open at what is happening at UC Davis since I'm not going to consider any other school. Even if I don't pursue it or (perish the thought!) am not accepted after I apply, I find the work they are doing interesting. Here is my first of a series on things going on there that I find interesting.
This article titled StarGate: A Unied, Interactive Visualization of Software Projects intrigues me since one of my core beliefs is the centrality of people to the improvement of the software development process. Many academics still pursue strategies that hinder the process by injecting too much automated process. Social networking nicely balances human goals with computer mediated communication.
A term that was new to me in the paper was radial space-filling hierachy. This paper at the German University at Cairo gave me a quick review of this term and many others which will be helpful in visualizations.
This article titled StarGate: A Unied, Interactive Visualization of Software Projects intrigues me since one of my core beliefs is the centrality of people to the improvement of the software development process. Many academics still pursue strategies that hinder the process by injecting too much automated process. Social networking nicely balances human goals with computer mediated communication.
A term that was new to me in the paper was radial space-filling hierachy. This paper at the German University at Cairo gave me a quick review of this term and many others which will be helpful in visualizations.
Welcome to my blog
Well, really this will be more like a diary since I don't expect many visitors.
I'm creating this to twitter myself on the various intellectual cul-de-sacs I visit in my mind and on the web. If I'm every bankrupt for ideas to harvest for essays, this is the first place I'll look.
My interests are broad but they do spin around systems development as a strange attractor. Many of my posts are likely to drift into other topics that are related to this main point in only the most peripheral way or perhaps not at all. Maybe I just needed a break.
I hope your stop here is worth your time.
Enjoy.
I'm creating this to twitter myself on the various intellectual cul-de-sacs I visit in my mind and on the web. If I'm every bankrupt for ideas to harvest for essays, this is the first place I'll look.
My interests are broad but they do spin around systems development as a strange attractor. Many of my posts are likely to drift into other topics that are related to this main point in only the most peripheral way or perhaps not at all. Maybe I just needed a break.
I hope your stop here is worth your time.
Enjoy.
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