It’s Christmas. Again.
Yes, me hearties, it’s Christmas again. Another year almost over. I hope the year was as exciting to all of you as it was for me, and wish everybody a blessed Christmas Time, and a smooth entry into a Great New Year! May Santa Claus be generous to all of us! 🙂
When Greatness Dies
… the world stops for a moment.
There is something incredibly moving in the planet’s atmosphere today. It is the sadness and shock of millions fans around the globe who bemoan the death of Michael Jackson. Read more >>
Automatic Software Updates To Pain
Not long ago, I updated my antivirus software to a new version. I do that regularly, as it is so easy to keep track with new updates: The software does that for me! Every time a newer version of it was released, the software asked me if I wanted to update to that new version. (I’m not talking about updates to the virus database, which are independent of this.)
It was all cool and easy until the other day. Read more >>
Obama’s SEO Counterstrike
I usually stay out of politics, not because I’m indifferent, but because there never seemed to be a big difference between this or that party, this or that candidate, this or that government. It always appeared to me as if behind different faces it was all the same old bullshit.
Until Obama came… Read more >>
The Conficker Syndrome, Salvationware, And The Real Matrix
Remember in “The Matrix”
What is the Matrix? Control.
Now, we might not live inside a matrix (and even if we did, we wouldn’t know it, so it wouldn’t make a difference), but much of the ado we are facing, especially in the mass media, is just about that: Control.[toc class=toc-right style=”margin-top:-.1em”]
Welcome To The Machine (Or 8 Easy Steps To Nowhere)
Have you noticed the increasing uniformity of how blog posts are being named these days? At every turn, there seems to be the same simple, supremely uncreative title pattern. You know, titles like
69 Hot Tips For A Perfect Love Life
or
How To Make A Billion Dollar In 3 Easy Steps
This “style” has spread like a malicious nasty little virus all over the Internet, and managed to Read more >>
Will Productivity Harm Your Job?
Today, I incidentally came accross a (somewhat older) discussion about python jobs, where I found a post from someone who was looking for one, saying
I ended up doing Java web developement close to where I live. I figured big projects in slow languages = slow progress = job security. Alas, probably less fun too.
Note his logic ??? (In italic)
Wow! I thought. Somehow, this does make sense. A bizarre sense, but still…
The Noosphere And The Return Of Honor (My Closure Of The Year 2008)
It’s the last day of the year, and I chose not to write any technical, nor critical article. Instead, I’d like to turn my attention to a phenomenon that’s one of the greater, even if overlooked, achievements of the Internet.
Besides the zillion apparent ways the Internet has changed human life on this planet, there are also several less apparent ones. One is the concept of “honor” in Internet-based cooperation.
In Memory Of Srinivasa Ramanujan
Yesterday would have been the 121st birthday of one of the brightest minds this planet has ever been a home to: Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Little known to a wider public, this guy, although born and raised in poverty, and with absolute no formal education, managed not only to reproduce by himself – in a self-tought fashion – much of the mathematical knowledge from antiquity to the 20th century, he also invented countless mathematical methods that are the foundation of many modern theories, not least Superstring Theory.
Of Boiling Frogs And Chinese Whispers
When I wrote “Psychology Of IT Language“, I brought up the aspect of communication of principles, the implicit communication of values, and its possible psychological impact on an organization.
As I’m further contemplating about it, patterns begin to disclose themselves. Two such patterns are Chinese Whisper and Boiling Frog. But before I go into them, an example:
