Technology

Leapfrog (Jan 10, 2007)
I laid awake last night thinking about the iPhone. Seriously. I had two ideas that were circling each other like black holes in a death spiral. First, I think the people who buy the iPhone will also buy more...

More thoughts on the Google datacenter (Feb 12, 2006)
A while ago I wrote about the significance of the Google datacenter as an operational innovation. I suggested that IT folks struggling with maintaining infrastructure might consider outsourcing to Google: If I were an IT manager I'd want to know...

Xbox 360: optimization not innovation (Nov 18, 2005)
The Xbox 360, which hits stores next week, is being billed as "the next generation in entertainment." It's got a bunch of media center features baked in, so you can look at photos, connect with your PC, etc., through the...

Earlier Posts

Kids, computers and play (Nov 15, 2005)

The Ray Ozzie memo: a design shift at Microsoft? (Nov 9, 2005)

Sub-rosa assumptions of community tools (Jul 13, 2004)

Disasters attributable to bad numerical computing (Dec 29, 2003)

Clipesthetic sense? (Nov 14, 2003)

XP TaskSwitcher (Oct 30, 2003)

SoBig.F and Reed's Law (Aug 22, 2003)

Alberta Heart Institute, CMS complaints (Jul 14, 2003)

Your forgotten (browser) history (Mar 10, 2003)

Keylogging made easy (Feb 25, 2003)

Trying so hard not to call this "Surfin' Safari" (Jan 7, 2003)

Code Nazis (Nov 20, 2002)