Month: November 2002

You Are a Suspect: The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads “Scientia Est Potentia” — “knowledge is power.” Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you. “We're just as concerned as the next person with protecting privacy,” this brilliant mind blandly assured The Post. A jury found he spoke… Continue reading You Are a Suspect

Lifeblood. Retail bookselling is a tough racket. [Mark Bernstein]

Fuseboxed – Well, I decided to launch the new version of my site tonight, built with Fusebox 3 for PHP. It should behave mostly like the old site. Let me know if you find any problems with it. I'll be updating quite a bit of content over the next few evenings and also writing up… Continue reading new version of my site

My friend Mary just bought a Mazda Tribute!

A Taxonomy Primer. Taxonomies… thesauri… classification systems… synonym rings. We've heard all of these terms in the context of the Web… [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE]

Picking a Real World Release Dates. I've worked in big software companies, teeny tiny small software companies and worked with software companies all over the globe. And one thing remains constant: we all screw up release dates with the regularity of snow at the North Pole. I have to think that a big part of… Continue reading Picking a Real World Release Dates

The Law of Leaky Abstractions. TCP is a way to transmit data that is reliable. By this I mean: if you send a message over a network using TCP, it will arrive, and it won't be garbled or corrupted. We use TCP for many things like fetching web pages and sending email. The reliability of… Continue reading The Law of Leaky Abstractions

The Marriage of Stewart and Jesse.. My post on extending Jesse's elements of user experience , and assigning intervals of longevity, fired a connection to Stewart Brand's brilliant How Buildings Learn , wherein he identifies the 6 layers of buildings, all which happen to begin with S … [peterme.com]

Why VPN When You Can SSL?. Neoteris is upgrading its browser-based application for remote users on the corporate LAN, giving IT managers more flexibility to manage access to the network. [Internet Product News]

Defining Feature Sets Through Prototyping. Defining Feature Sets Through Prototyping – Defining requirements and features can be a daunting task under the best of circumstances. The Vision Prototype allows the user-centered vision to be seen—and discussed—by all team members and then easily translated into a set of functional requirements. [Boxes and Arrows] [ia/ – news… Continue reading Defining Feature Sets Through Prototyping