The Traveler Guitar – An Example of Fitness for Purpose in Product Design
Quality is fitness for purpose it is not an absolute. This is the finest quality traveling guitar I've ever come across. Continue reading →The Traveler Guitar – An Example of Fitness for Purpose in...
View ArticleThe Assassins. A Radical Sect in Islam by Bernard Lewis
The Assassins or Ismailis were a fascinating, enigmatic people that used assassination, and the fear of it, as a political weapon. Their influence was felt throughout the Islamic world for 2 centuries...
View ArticleUsing a Balanced Scorecard to align Enterprise Architecture and System...
The concept of a balanced scorecard was developed by Dr. Robert S. Kaplan of the Harvard Business School, and Dr. David P. Norton, and is explain in their book Translating Strategy into Action. The...
View ArticleFree Culture by Lawrence Lessig
"Extending copyright perpetually... is itself a form of theft - a theft of our common culture." Continue reading →Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig Virtual Travelog
View ArticleThe Biomorph Personal Desk
It's surprising that while there are plenty of adjustable chairs around there are not that many adjustable desks. In the end it came down to a choice between the AdjustaBench from Anthro and the...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Cooperation – Social Software and the Shadow of the Future.
The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod is an outstanding book. First published in 1984 it has increased in significance with the evolution of the Internet. In the book Axelrod examines how...
View ArticleLinksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems – Low Reliability and...
I purchased a Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B broadband Router but it appears to be intolerant of glitches in low level network messages and this leads to lots of hangs and general low reliability....
View ArticleOnline Banking with Quicken for Mac. Why I don’t give a damn about free...
Quicken is without doubt the most valuable piece of software I use and has returned the small investment I made in it many times over. It is also a valuable weapon for managing the sharks of the...
View ArticleMoby Dick by Herman Melville
4 of 5 stars. Continue reading →Moby Dick by Herman Melville Virtual Travelog
View ArticleCatch 22 by Joseph Heller
5 of 5 stars. Catch 22 is both a great American novel and a deeply un-American treatise. Extremely satirical, it is a superb skewering of the american dream and bureaucracies everywhere. Continue...
View ArticleReinventing the Sacred by Stuart Kauffman
4 of 5 stars. This is the journal of a smart man grappling with discoveries at the edge of human knowledge. Kauffman tries to answer the question "what does it all mean" without retreating to religious...
View ArticleWhy Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne
4 of 5 stars. It is hugely entertaining reading an academic, at the top of his game, build such an impressive case. The evidence is undeniable and overwhelming. Evolution is true. Continue reading →Why...
View ArticleThe Evolutionary Origins of Ritual, Music, and Dance
Religion, ritual, music, and dance, are human universals. It seems incredible to me that these are merely side effects, or cultural artifacts, that serve no evolutionary purpose. Time will tell if my...
View ArticleGoogle’s Ngram Viewer exposes Gartner’s Hype Cycles
Using the Google Books Ngram Viewer it is possible to plot quantified graphs of a technology's visibility. These plots should look like Gartner Hype Cycles but they don’t. Gartner’s Hype cycles are a...
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