My head is burning today. Too much excitement!
February 2009
40 posts
Why is it that universities don’t push Linux more? For a CS major, having a steady grasp on the terminal is important. So how can we get more students up to speed on the console? An intro Linux…
Microsoft are quickly claiming the mantle of patent troll. Yesterday they attacked free software with claims against the TomTom and its utilization of the kernel Linux. With widespread support for…
Øη (Null Eta) is my visionary strategic business strategy framework strategy, based on instantly achieving zero efficiency using only cool greek letters, secret naps, and the occasional off-site retreat on the Las Vegas strip. Its goal — such as it is — is to make nothing happen. No efficiency. Nay: null efficiency. The absence of efficiency. None efficient. Empty set. Zzzzp.
Sure, bullshit like Six Sigma may seem like a lot of costly nonsense for middle managers to squirt on their resumes like a grievous, room-temperature aioli. But, øη is a truly revolutionary approach to re-imagining business excellence vis-a-vis deliberately unintentional and persistent stasis. Go, ahead. Sit down. Try it. Nice, right?
“Six nines?” Sure. If you have that kind of time to dick around on increasingly minor improvements before you give up and get a goddamned highball. But, Null Eta kicks in the first day you spend two hours trying to figure out what the fuck it means. Then, it never lets go. Until there’s simply no time or resources to care any more. That’s how you know it’s working. That’s Null Eta.
It’s the tent pole of a modern enterprise strategy that scales like a motherfucker. So, come on: drop those nines, and join the empty set.
A Wired Manifesto Set the data free Today, public companies and financial institutions disclose their activities in endless documents stuffed with figures and stats. Instead, they should be forced to file using universal tags that make the data easy to explore. Empower all investors Once every company’s data carries identical tags, anyone can manipulate the numbers to compare performance. And they can see details of every financial instrument—not just balance sheets and income statements. Create an army of citizen-regulators By giving everyone access to every piece of data—and making it easy to crunch—we can crowdsource regulation, creating a self-correcting financial system and unlocking new ways of measuring the market’s health.” —Radical Transparency Now!
Deep Sea Fish can see through the back of it’s head.
I don’t think other people often to think “O thank god I am not going to die.” I do.
This may seem ridiculous, but just picture this: a really expensive spacecraft flying in space with the name “Battletoad”. What could be a better deterrent to alien invasion? If I was an alien and I…
1. Perle is not a neoconservative.
2. Neoconservatives do not exist.
3. Even if neoconservatives did exist, they certainly couldn’t be blamed for the disasters of the past eight years.
ubiquity is remarkable and mozilla needs to start applying it’s efforts to desktop open source efforts