Author: Vince Kimball

Two Gothic Cathedrals. St. Chapelle is a Gothic chapel built by Louis IX in 1248 to hold the trinkets he picked up on his first foreign trip (i.e. “Crusade”). Apparently, the Venetian merchants had a few baubles that he was interested in and which he brought back as mementos of his travels: Notre Dame Cathedral… Continue reading Two Gothic Cathedrals

Computerized voting killing democracy in the US. Glitch Wins by a Landslide, in CounterPunch: Computerized voting machines in the 2002 election did all kinds of weird things: if you pressed the Democrat's name in some counties in Texas, for example, the Republican's name was chosen. And in Cormal County, Texas, three Republican candidates won by… Continue reading Computerized voting killing democracy in the US

NEASIST Fun!.  I forgot to mention that the NEASIST program went quite well. There were oohs and aahs during Steven's presentation on RSS, Jessamyn is exceptionally hard on herself because she gave a fascinating talk (and congratulations, Ms. Councilor!), and I learned search engine goodness from Greg and Ran. Riba blogged the day's events, and you can… Continue reading NEASIST Fun!

Proxim's a/b/g Card. Proxim introduces Orinoco 11a/b/g ComboCard: The card comes in silver ($90) and gold ($110) flavors, perpetuating a distinction that's more confusing than necessary. The 802.11b silver and gold were 40 and 128-bit WEP, respectively. The ComboCard offers profiles and some kind of unexplained power management in gold (enterprise), and neither in silver… Continue reading Proxim's a/b/g Card

CIO: Sleuthing Out Data. During the past few years, however, several developments have made it much easier to automate or at least semiautomate categorization, sparking a small revolution in the sophistication of enterprise-level search engines and the number and kinds of users a system can help. [Tomalak's Realm]

Boston Globe Online / Nation | World / Some fear loss of privacy as science pries into brain. A marketing research company is already starting to use the machines to gauge consumers' unconscious preferences by looking at the pattern of brain activity as they respond to products or messages. Though brain scientists are nowhere near… Continue reading Some fear loss of privacy as science pries into brain

A Truly Useful Google Tip. A simple approach to “contextual” searching may bring you better results. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Practical Technology Contract Review News. My new email newsletter debuted today. I invite you to give it a look. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Technology in Corporate Law Departments – The Current State of the Art. Diappointing news from a survey on technology use in corporate law departments. Unbelievably, many law firms look good in comparison. Frightening stuff. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Your Broker Misled You. Regulations to end fraudulent stock research let companies off easy and don't change much. [The Motley Fool]