In his recent (and apparently his last before blogging retirement) article, “A Brief History of Dangerous Ideas [http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/07/brief-history-of-dangerous-ideas.html]“, Reg Braithwaite wrote about the dangers associated with technology (ideas). Reg’ article also draws a reflection on how the Internet has become a dangerous idea…
Radiohead [http://www.radiohead.com/] just released a new video for their song “House of Cards”. It’s a ground-breaking experiment with capturing 3D images [http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead]. > Forget about your house of cards And I’ll do mine Fall off the table and get swept…
> Once Einstein was on his way to deliver a speech to university students. His faithful chauffeur not only drove his car, but was always present amongst the audience during all his speeches. Einstein had delivered this particular speech so many times that his chauffeur had actually memorized it. On…
A recent news article suggested [http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14200-galaxy-map-hints-at-fractal-universe.html?feedId=online-news_rss20] that the matter in the universe ‘may be’ arranged in a fractal pattern. With all the randomness of nature, that might not just be a coincidence between fact and fiction. The other night I was…
The author of the Harry Potter series, JK Rowling [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling], recently gave a commencement speech at Harvard [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pucdJHjZaqs]. An excerpt … > Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. You might never fail…
Windows XP [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsxp/default.mspx] is the most popular, and in many ways more reliable, than any other computer operating system offered by Microsoft. Windows XP is also one of the largest consumer software applications. But, let’s face it, Microsoft has had a…
HackerTV [http://www.justin.tv/hackertv/] is broadcasting Startup School [http://startupschool.org/] 2008, an all-day event that covers pretty much everything one would ever want to know about technology startups. A crowd of over 650 developers, writers, and entrepreneurs packed Stanford’s Kresge Auditorium for a chance to pick…
In the cloud computing space, there’s the SaaS model, its cousin DaaS [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2008/04/06/daas-the-cousin/], and their distant mate – Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). All the “XaaS” platforms exist and operate under the same umbrella, so to speak. The “Comparing Amazon’s and Google’s Platform-as-a-Service…