Friday, March 26, 2010

Mozilla Stops Development of Firefox for Windows Mobile - PCWorld

Mozilla Stops Development of Firefox for Windows Mobile - PCWorld

Microsoft, I thought you were leaving this silly anti-competitive behavior behind you. All you're doing is strengthening your competition. This was truly a bad play.

Monday, March 15, 2010

This just in: Twitter still sucks

Puppy! - Joel on Software:

Thanks for all the great articles Joel, and thanks for this jem:

"Although I appreciate that many people find Twitter to be valuable, I find it a truly awful way to exchange thoughts and ideas. It creates a mentally stunted world in which the most complicated thought you can think is one sentence long. It’s a cacophony of people shouting their thoughts into the abyss without listening to what anyone else is saying. Logging on gives you a page full of little hand grenades: impossible-to-understand, context-free sentences that take five minutes of research to unravel and which then turn out to be stupid, irrelevant, or pertaining to the television series Battlestar Galactica. I would write an essay describing why Twitter gives me a headache and makes me fear for the future of humanity, but it doesn’t deserve more than 140 characters of explanation, and I’ve already spent 820."

Sunday, March 07, 2010

Frank Ahrens: Why it's so hard for Toyota to find out what's wrong - washingtonpost.com

Frank Ahrens: Why it's so hard for Toyota to find out what's wrong - washingtonpost.com: "'It is well-known in our community that there is no scientific, firm way of actually completely verifying and validating software.'"

A lot of people don't know or understand this. Finding bugs is a statistical game, and the definition of "bug" changes with environmental conditions.

Saturday, March 06, 2010

Chicxulub Impact Effects

Chicxulub Impact Effects

This website is pretty cool, it shows the effects on our planet of the asteroid stike that killed the dinosaurs.

You'll need to have Google Earth installed, along with a plugin, in order to see the maps, which are impressive. The asteroid was 7.45 miles wide and hit at 44,460 miles per hour, far in excess of the Mexican speed limit.

Friday, March 05, 2010

Good riddance to YOU - Fortune Brainstorm Tech

Good riddance to YOU - Fortune Brainstorm Tech

Even though I blog, I have to say I appreciate this guy's perspective quite a bit. There really is a lot of garbage out there, and what I generate is probably no exception.