Last Friday I remembered a Soviet joke from an old IB history textbook that I used to like, so I decided to share it with a coworker: Liesl: Why does the secret police always travel in threes? Intrigued coworker: I don’t know, why? Liesl: One can read, one can write, and one keeps an eye [...]
CMS-Watch recently published a neat document they call the 2010 Content Technology Vendor Map. It gives a quick overview of just how many options are out there, and reinforces the message that the purpose, nature and content of your project should drive which CMS you choose. Too often, companies are locked in to a system [...]
Some of my favourite classes in university were: Intermedia: An Art History course on performance/video art, experimental music, and the art scene throughout the 20th Century. I read Kurzweil for the first time and wondered what Socrates would think of mobile devices, given that Plato claimed in Phaedrus that he thought literacy alone would wreck [...]
So the blogosphere is all a-tingle with the news that blogger and author Belle de Jour is actually Dr Brooke Magnanti. I, for one, am glad that she turned out to be: An actual woman (there were many doubters) An actual former sex worker (again, many doubters) A doctor working for a worthwhile cause Proud [...]
