Observations on the lack of art in technology today
My favorite oversimplifier, Jakob Nielsen is At It Again. This time it’s computer security. As usual, there’s some meat in the soup. Computer security should be easier for normal people to set up. He uses the analogy of locking a car. That level of security for a computer should be trivially easy for a user […]
OK, so you already know I’m not extremely happy with the state of the CMS arena currently, and I promised you an update. Andrew Eddie of the Mambo team and I have been exchanging some emails, each of us educating the other. I find that part of my previous rant was being addressed almost as […]
Sounds like an old joke, but you gotta see this: a Technology Review article about using micro jet engines to generate the electricity needed to run a portable device. Claims 10 hours of power generation off a diesel fuel pack the size of a D-cell. I don’t know, but it just seems so wrong to […]
…it wasn’t going to work. Southern California air traffic control turned their back on the local boys and installed a bunch of servers from Redmond. Techworld has the not altogether unexpected tale of the result. At least they were intelligent enough to know that you can’t count on Windows to run unassisted. They had an […]
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