How an Algorithm Helped Arrange the Names on the 9/11 Memorial
Not much to say here other than this is an incredible tribute. Commemorative Calculus: How an Algorithm Helped Arrange the Names on the 9/11 Memorial: Scientific American 343
Mea Culpa: Maybe It Did Just Work
As a coda to my Macbook Pro wifi network dropping tribulations, I should note that the MBP probably wasn’t to blame for the wifi drops. I provide this explanation as a bookmark for myself, as I’m sure to need it later, and also as an offering to the robot overlords, since I’m sure someone with [...]
Sometimes It Doesn’t Just Work
I don’t consider myself a fanboi, but I’ve always found that Apple’s products just work and do so well. Over the years, I’ve owned Macbooks, an iMac, an original iPhone and an original iPad. My latest purchase, a 15-inch Macbook Pro, might be the first exception to the “it just works” mantra. I’ve already invested [...]
Search by Drawing with Google Correlate
This is pretty fun and very cool. Draw – Google Correlate (h/t kottke.org) You draw a curve, and Google Correlate matches search terms to it from search data collected from January 2003 to the present. Playing with it for a few minutes is bound to turn up something that makes you cock an eyebrow, like this [...]
Intel Stopping MeeGo Development?
MeeGo has a ton of promise, as demonstrated with the ogling and ink spilled over the Nokia N9, which really looks spectacular. Too bad it won’t ever reach the US. Now there’s a rumor floating around that Intel might suspend its MeeGo development. I hope this one isn’t true. Intel reportedly plans to back off MeeGo OS (h/t TechCrunch) [...]
Welcoming the Social Enterprise
I spend most of my time thinking about new and upcoming technology, but sometimes, it’s nice to reflect. The social enterprise is big news this week, and I’m glad this idea’s time has finally come. If you read here, you’ll know we were early proponents of socializing work, launching the IdeaFactory, which became Oracle Connect, [...]
What If Enterprise Software Were Produced?
I don’t know very much about game development. Very little. I know a lot about enterprise software development. A metric ton. I wonder what would happen if enterprise software development took more cues from game development. The two aren’t really that different. You have users/players. Ostensibly, you want them to use the software/play the game. Your [...]
Self-Reward: New Macbook Pro
I finally broke down and bought a new Macbook Pro on Friday. Since the unibody models were released a few years ago, I’ve been admiring them from afar, but I vowed to run my old white Macbook into the ground first. When I bought it back in 2006, I went for the low end model, [...]
Memories
From Bits & Pieces, h/t Geekosystem
Ladies Love Cool eReaders?
Ordinarily, this type of research wouldn’t interest me enough to post, but this hits home. Ladies love e-readers; guys prefer tablets — Tech News and Analysis Just last week, while traveling for the first time with our daughter, my wife announced that she wanted a Kindle. Her timing was funny, considering she had just bought [...]
Diaspora is Lonely
I guess a migration (diaspora) could begin as a lonely experience, but damn, Diaspora is a lonely place. You remember Diaspora, the open alternative to Facebook that kicked off with much fanfare in May 2010? Kinda the anti-Facebook. Anyway, I got an invitation to join over the weekend and decided to kick the tires. Paul [...]
Everything to Everyone is the New Black
There’s a lot going on lately in the tech news arena. What’s interesting to me is that several major consumer players are converging to become all things to their users. Good old soup to nuts makes a triumphant return. Apple pioneered this model. They control every aspect of the user experience from the hardware all [...]
Tacit Haptic Glove for the Visually-Impaired
This is very cool (h/t technabob). Project Tacit: Sonar For The Blind from Grathio Labs on Vimeo. Bonus points, it’s Arduino-based and CC-BY-NC licensed. Steve Hoefer (@grathio) even provides the code, schematics and parts list. This is the type of innovation I’m expecting will rise out of the Android ADK, announced at Google IO this year. Ben [...]
A Java ME Phone Like No Other
In case you thought Java was for stuffy enterprise development, check out this Java ME-powered Hello Kitty phone. Behold the power of Java. Of course, Java ME powers a ton of devices, including loads of mobile phones, but this one is special. In case you think there’s no market for Hello Kitty phones, there’s an Android-powered [...]
Oracle OpenWorld WebCenter Sessions
There will be tons of great WebCenter (@oraclewebcenter) sessions at OpenWorld this year. Check out Kellsey’s rundown: Oracle OpenWorld: Don’t Miss WebCenter Sessions (Oracle WebCenter Blog) In addition, check out the demo grounds, customer and partner sessions. Lots of WebCenter content this year, so make your plans now. In case you were wondering, we won’t [...]
Thanks and Good Luck Rich
Just about a year after we said goodbye to Paul (@ppedrazzi), Rich (@rmanalan) is moving on to an outstanding opportunity at Atlassian. And then there was one, founding member of AppsLab, that is. As it was when Paul left, the mood is mixed. On the one hand, Rich is heading to a great company to [...]
Sarah Connor?
This is just funny, h/t Geekosystem. @111001001101010 Apparently, there’s some disagreement on the current (vs. future) spelling of Sarah’s last name. Is that you Neil Kodner (@neilkod)?
Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility
So, this is kind of a big deal. Official Google Blog: Supercharging Android: Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility Obviously Google wants to control the end-to-end hardware and software experience of Android devices, a la Apple. From my brief couple weeks using a Nexus S, vanilla Android is pretty nice. You don’t really notice the major [...]
New Mobile-Friendly Oracle SSO Login
If you login to any oracle.com properties today, you’ll notice there’s a new look to the SSO login page. This new page is designed to be mobile-friendly and uses CSS3 media queries to determine the viewport size of your device and render the page appropriately. If you’re not on a mobile device but want to [...]
Hipster Lorem Ipsum
This is hilarious, and not just because several words relate to Portland. Hipster lorem ipsum The next time you need some dummy text for a mockup or prototype, why not spice up that lorem ipsum with some hipster ipsum? It’s been pummeled a bit by traffic, but here’s what it looks like: And here’s a sample: PBR [...]
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