http://www.mckechnie.net/ things that happen on your way to somewhere else en-us Copyright 2011 Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:04:33 +0100 Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:04:36 +0100 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.01D http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Key quote "All I can think about is that I hope that I live long enough to watch it all happen. Even if it all ends in a clusterfuck of destruction, it is going to be a lot of fun."... http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2011/06/as_good_as_the.php http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2011/06/as_good_as_the.php Journalism Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:04:33 +0100 .flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { float: right; width: 150px; text-align: center; padding: 3px; margin-right: 10px; } .flickr-caption { font: 75%; /* color: #666666; */ margin-top: 0px; } .flickr-buddyicon { margin-right:5px; vertical-align:middle; border:... http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2011/04/walker.php http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2011/04/walker.php Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:13:52 +0100 .flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { float: right; width: 150px; text-align: center; padding: 3px; margin-right: 10px; } .flickr-caption { font: 75%; /* color: #666666; */ margin-top: 0px; } .flickr-buddyicon { margin-right:5px; vertical-align:middle; border:... http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2011/04/pause.php http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2011/04/pause.php Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:12:01 +0100 .flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { float: right; width: 150px; text-align: center; padding: 3px; margin-right: 10px; } .flickr-caption { font: 75%; /* color: #666666; */ margin-top: 0px; } .flickr-buddyicon { margin-right:5px; vertical-align:middle; border:... http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2011/04/snack.php http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2011/04/snack.php Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:11:20 +0100 .flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { float: right; width: 150px; text-align: center; padding: 3px; margin-right: 10px; } .flickr-caption { font: 75%; /* color: #666666; */ margin-top: 0px; } .flickr-buddyicon { margin-right:5px; vertical-align:middle; border:... http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2011/04/poised.php http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2011/04/poised.php Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:10:45 +0100 .flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { float: right; width: 150px; text-align: center; padding: 3px; margin-right: 10px; } .flickr-caption { font: 75%; /* color: #666666; */ margin-top: 0px; } .flickr-buddyicon { margin-right:5px; vertical-align:middle; border:... http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2011/04/tired.php http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2011/04/tired.php Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:10:00 +0100 Kittens: “either smothered in onions or in a ragout they are excellent” - An Open Mind | Futility Closet via Boing Boing... http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2011/03/meow_1.php http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2011/03/meow_1.php Journalism Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:57:41 +0100 "We spend lots of time working with our customers. We work hard to understand their goals, their users, and the major parts of the system we could build. Then we finally get down to the details - the pieces of... http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2011/03/flat_backlogs_a_1.php http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2011/03/flat_backlogs_a_1.php Development Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:55:55 +0100 In spite of its lack of popularity, LISP (now "Lisp" or sometimes "Arc") remains an influential language in "key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension" - from One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming... http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2010/05/history_of_prog.php http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2010/05/history_of_prog.php Commentary Tue, 11 May 2010 19:14:07 +0100 Why is the center for disease control the authority for the statistically significant attributes of marriage? Marriages last longer than living together? - Yahoo! News... http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2010/03/marriage_expert.php http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2010/03/marriage_expert.php Commentary Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:33:32 +0100 "An employee of the Uzbek general prosecutor’s press office said that only his manager was authorized to comment and that the manager’s position was at present unfilled." Priceless. From New York Times... http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2010/02/uzbeks.php http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2010/02/uzbeks.php Journalism Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:59:31 +0100 Tim Bray pegs it nicely; the solution is less clear. "The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don’t know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost... http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2010/01/enterprise_comp.php http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2010/01/enterprise_comp.php Development Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:20:35 +0100 "I’ve been in a lot of Cloud-flavored discussions recently about what kind of Platform-as-a-Service offerings might hit sweet spots. On several occasions, People Who Should Know have said things like “A huge proportion of apps, even really big apps, can... http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2009/05/db_optimisation.php http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2009/05/db_optimisation.php Development Wed, 27 May 2009 11:27:32 +0100 Tom Glocer sails off on a sea of others' troubles - Times Online In an act of callousness that might have brought a blush to the cheeks of Marie Antoinette herself, Tom Glocer, the Thomson Reuters chief executive, has chartered... http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2008/06/tom_glocer_sail.php http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2008/06/tom_glocer_sail.php Journalism Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:03:29 +0100 He added: "There are moments way out in the middle of nowhere when I see a little car parked and I swear it needs loving." 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