Sunday, January 29, 2012

David Bamberger on 60 Minutes Tonight

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My friend David Bamberger—who has been working since 1969 to restore the worst piece of land in Blanco County, Texas (and maybe the rest of ...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Watch the Solstice Approach (and Recede)

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As an equinox or a solstice (in this case) approaches, my year clock starts indicating the time of the event with increasing precision, usi...
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Saturday, November 19, 2011

Check Your Drug Interactions, Avoid Rude Surprises

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I recently found myself in a situation in which an over-the-counter pain medication prescribed by one of my doctors began to poison me, and,...
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Friday, November 11, 2011

Wolfram|Alpha: How it Came to Be, What it Does, How it’s Done, How it Grows

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I’ve been sending this link to people for a year or more. I think I’m overdue to make it available to everyone: Making the World’s Data Comp...
Monday, October 17, 2011

Maintaining In-House Technical Skills

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From Project Apollo: The Tough Decisions by Robert C. Seamans, Jr. , pg. 84: When conducting advanced technical efforts, it’s imperative to...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

The “Glass Teletype”

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From TOG on Interface by Bruce “TOG” Tognazzini, pg. 131: Early computers used printers as their sole output. When programmers at various l...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

The Intuitive Person vs. Western Education

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From TOG on Interface by Bruce “TOG” Tognazzini, pg. 103: Western education is heavily biased toward intellect over intuition: Intuition is...
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