It surprises people that, as a well-assimilated Apple fanboy, I didn't buy the first generation iPhone. I was in the store on launch day, I had one in my hand, my credit card was burning a hole in my pocket... and I left without one. I used my Treo for nearly another year until the 2nd generation iPhone (confusingly named 3G) was released. I wasn't … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2010
Notes on Vision
November 24, 2010 by
This is going to be a more personal post than usual. Nine months ago today, my life changed. I went in for eye surgery. A lot of people ask questions, usually with positive assumptions like "So your eye is all better now?" It's not, and I hate telling people that, so I decided to put it all here on my blog. … [Read more...]
GT Legislative Priorities
November 20, 2010 by
Georgia Tech's legislative priorities for 2011. … [Read more...]
Redistributing the Future
November 18, 2010 by
"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." – William Gibson, science fiction writer Those of us who grew up on The Jetsons may feel cheated. It's the 21st century, and we don't have flying cars, or Moon vacations, or Rosie the Robot cooking our meals. … [Read more...]
Towards a Hypertext Ecology (1987)
November 15, 2010 by
While searching for something else in my boxes of decaying paper files recently, I ran across a couple of articles I wrote for publication in 1987/88. … [Read more...]
Liberty in the Information Age (1988)
November 15, 2010 by
While searching for something else in my boxes of decaying paper files recently, I ran across a couple of articles I wrote for publication in 1987/88. … [Read more...]
The Wiimotes
November 5, 2010 by
Watching the Wiimotes at #Geekend -- love the @MailChimp hats! … [Read more...]
Vote No on #1
November 2, 2010 by
This is how you do it, Georgia: #votenoon1 via twittelator … [Read more...]
