Fortunately passed this way returning from usability testing and snapped some pics with the Hiptop. My man George wasn’t exactly sleeping in a tent…
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Making Connections
The program of the IA Summit takes the theme of Making Connections to heart. Besides the usual IA luminaries, we get James Spahr on mapping, Mark Bernstein on hypertext, Alex Wright on sociobiology, and still others on politics, knowledge management, design process, information science, information technology, and more. It should be a great time.
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One for robots.txt
A visit from ‘robot’ (IP# 218.43.21.223) one day in January pushed me over my monthly bandwith limit.
User-agent: robot # rather agressive behavior
Disallow: /
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Tea on 94th St.
If you’re in the neighborhood and love good tea, this is a happy little spot to buy a cup or loose leaves:
Leaf Storm Tea, 176 West 94th St. (Corner of Amsterdam), NY, NY (212) 222-3300
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Architect’s Spectacles
With their soaring towers and memorials, both concepts [for the World Trade Center] were the talk of the town. A few New Yorkers, however, seemed almost as impressed by the architects’ eyewear…”You never hear customers saying, `Make me look like a lawyer,’ ” Mr. Marc observed. “It’s always, `Give me that architect type of look.’ “
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TV Night
I’m sheepishly watching more TV and embarrased of it, but Jaws just has this great blend of realistic characters, drama, and humor. I think it’s aging much better than Star Wars, for example, which I also embarrassingly re-watched recently.
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Handy
Just watched the Ask this Old House show on rocking toilets, then fixed my own rocking toilet. I love that show.
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Time to MT
I hear it can take 10 minutes to get up and running with Movable Type; it took me 2 hours. While the instructions could be a little better, the popularity of scripting languages demands friendly installers. If they’ve become standard for Linux, they should be for perl too.
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Costing not less than everything
I’m rather tired of every amateur scientist weighing in with his or her opinion of the Space Shuttle Columbia’s destruction or the entire space program, so I’m reluctant to do the same here. But tonight I walked onto the subway, sat down, and in front of my eyes was this passage from Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot that moved me enough that I must remember it…
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always –
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are infolded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.
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Ellison Speaks
Gotta love a CEO who isn’t afraid to argue technical architecture in public…
…The suggestion that “a single integrated software architecture may be perfect for [firms as centralised as] Oracle”, but not for companies that are more operationally devolved is quite wrong. The point of running applications designed and built around a single shared database is to provide a single place where managers can easily find and access accurate up-to-date information about the state of their business. The one-database approach puts the information in one place; it does not dictate decisions or the degree of autonomy given to managers in local markets…
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From Palm to Hiptop
So I took advantage of the $49 Hiptop special and finally migrated from my ancient Palm. When reading all the complaints of the browser rendering I grouchily asked, ‘Who really wants to browse the web on a screen that big anyway?‘ but actually, now that I have one, I do. Having access to the Web almost anywhere is awesome.
I find I have better control over my data too since the phone is always with me, whereas the Palm was always two steps behind, in my bag somewhere.
And now that I can see through the eyes of the mobile user I found it necessary to create a mobile version of NBS.
Subsequently I have a Palm III with RhinoPak case and GoType keyboard for sale for any reasonable offer ($30?)
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Why We Love James
‘Of course — If I’m going to have a watch, I’m going to have a watch that can make graphs. Yes I realize this is funny. ‘
And via James: ‘the fly affords being peed on.‘