1) You will always be irrationally amazed that people use technology Y, when clearly technology X is better. 2) You will always be subjected to date and time juggling. No exceptions. 3) The time it takes you to become an expert at hot technology X will invariability be equal to the time it takes technology [...]
I am as much a film geek as a tech geek. In a previous life, I reviewed music and movies, and had lots more fun with the latter. If someone offered me a film-review job that paid my mortgage, I’d take it in a second, but I have a feeling that will remain a part [...]
Mr. Bad and Crackmonkey collaborate on a fine Mr. Bad’s List. We put together ALL the TECHNOLOGY you ever need to know in order to STUMP your OPPONENT in a technical argument. Use these only when your back is against the wall — they’re definitely desperation tactics. By Mr. Bad, Crackmonkey That won’t scale. That’s [...]
The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech given at the Zurich Seminar, April 1984, by John Gordon, by invitation of Professor James Massey Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen. There comes a time when people at a technical conference like this need something more relaxing. A change of pace. A shift of style. To put aside [...]
When a computer starts writing to hard drive, it write everything in a spiral fashion. A healthy spiral would look like this: But as time passes, you’re bond to delete some file off of the hard drive, that will leave an empty space in the spiral. And now it looks like this: When the computer [...]
The World Wide Web (WWW) is so ubiquitous that it seems strange to think that it has only been around for a few years. Indeed, use of the WWW became widespread in the mid 1990′s, but its beginnings can actually be traced back to 1980 when Tim Berners-Lee, an Englishman who had recently graduated from [...]