Month: February 2002

“Can Love Last?” by Stephen Mitchell. A philosophically inclined psychoanalyst's daring final work explains that the ecstasy of romantic love doesn't fade away over time — we kill it. [Salon.com]

The 2001 Turing Award goes to Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard of Norway “for their role in the invention of object-oriented programming.”  [Scripting News]

Eroding academic integrity. Greg Ritter : 'In Kansas, a teacher has resigned over a plagiarism dispute. She discovered nearly 20% of her students had plagiarized their projects from the Internet…so she failed them. But the school board overrode her (and her principal and the district superintendent) and ordered her to give the students partial credit… Continue reading Eroding academic integrity

What is Six Degrees? When software companies say that “their capital assets go home every night,” they are serious. Dead serious. And when Quark goes down in flames because the bean-counters pushed out the experienced developers and hired new, cheaper ones 10 time zones away, there will be a great case study in Harvard Business Review to… Continue reading What is Six Degrees?

When software companies say that “their capital assets go home every night,” they are serious. Dead serious. And when Quark goes down in flames because the bean-counters pushed out the experienced developers and hired new, cheaper ones 10 time zones away, there will be a great case study in Harvard Business Review to prove it.

There are not a lot of software companies to work for in Denver. So when the key designers of QuarkXPress 5.0 got sick of being treated like interchangable code slaves, they started their own shop and quickly sold it to a smart Vancouver-based company that wrote them a blank check and let them stay in their hometown.

What they came up with is nothing short of a breakthrough in the field of personal knowledge management, an effervescent field that has not quite made it onto the radar of the buzzword maniacs. Six Degrees

Dan Bricklin: Last Thursday I visited the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology. Better known as CIMIT, it's members include two major Harvard teaching hospitals, Massachusetts General (MGH) and the Brigham and Women's (BWH), as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. It resides within the… Continue reading Dan Bricklin

Today is my father's birthday!

If I had a time machine, where would I go? Top ten list of places: 1. The liberation of Paris. Does anything else compare, for pure joy? I doubt it. 2. The Library of Alexandria. I’d back up a bunch of moving vans and bring all the books back to the present. 3. Gertrude Stein’s… Continue reading

If I had a time machine, where would I go? Top ten list of places:

1. The liberation of Paris. Does anything else compare, for pure joy? I doubt it.

2. The Library of Alexandria. I’d back up a bunch of moving vans and bring all the books back to the present.

3. Gertrude Stein’s Paris, 1900-1927. Hang out with Picasso in his studio; go drinking with Hemingway. I’d take a side trip to New York City for the Armory Show.

4. The American Revolution. I could spend hours and hours talking to Jefferson and Hamilton.

5. Athens at the time of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. (Socrates, don’t drink that! It’s poison, dude!)

6. Studio 54 in the pre-AIDS, pre-Just-Say-No ’70s.

7. New York City in the ’50s and ’60s. Hang out with the Abstract Expressionists, then move on to Andy Warhol’s Factory.

8. Paris at the time of Voltaire and Denis Diderot.

9. The Roman Empire before Christianity took hold. (Nothing against Christianity, mind you, I just want to see what the empire was like.)

10. Shakespeare’s England. Who wouldn’t want to see the original productions at the Globe theater?  [inessential.com

New York Says No-No to NA. Software manufacturer Network Associates tries to restrict what consumers and the media say about its products — New York's attorney general files a suit objecting to the practice. Michelle Delio reports from New York. [Wired News]

TurboPHP. TurboPHP is a Windows application that provides an extendable, Borland Delphi-style component system for rapid development of PHP and MySQL based web programs. Uses ADOdb as the database wrapper library! [PHP Everywhere]

David Davies.  Great tool for sharing images with friends and family.  Radio picturegallery script. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]