So, in the spirit of pico-projects, I’ve started building that address book application I mentioned awhile ago and I want to start writing about it as I go.
At least Finland isn’t a long distance call anymore.
So, I think I’m almost out of steam for now on this weekend’s thoughts.
I’ve already ditched a central desktop computer, and sometimes this makes me feel like I’m living in the future.
You don’t want to use a metal lathe in your living room, and you wouldn’t want to let just anyone loose on the thing unless they knew what they were doing. As shop in junior high taught me, a lathe is powerful tool capable of doing quite a variety of things. Some of those things leave you with jewelry and maybe more tools, and other (mis-)uses leave you with nasty injuries.
I don’t see a bright future for any brand of general-purpose PC, at least not continuing as the main consumer computing product.
No offense intended toward anyone, but… This goat rocks, as do OBJECTIVE: Christian Ministries.
It seems like the magic Bayesian pixie dust works well for spam-vs-ham in my email box, so why shouldn’t the magic for interesting-vs-yawn work for my aggregator firehose?
Hi there! My name is Leslie Michael Orchard. I'm a serially enthusiastic, caffeine-dependent {web,mad,computer} scientist and {tech,scifi} writer working for the Mozilla Corporation and living near Ann Arbor / Detroit in Michigan.
