Category Archives: software

a conversation from the future present.

“Where should I meet you?” “Here, I’ll just share my location with you on Latitude, just navigate to me” “Ok.” “See you in a bit.” A little weird, and a little awesome.

Clippy

Apparently I am bizarre, because I am the one person in the history of mankind who liked Clippy. You know, the paper clip in Microsoft’s Word. Whenever I needed him most, he’d appear. Yes, I AM composing a letter! Thank you! I’m a believer in personal agents. I think the people who had the foresight [...]

information expectation

Increasingly, as we begin to publish more and more, how much do we expect people to “just know” and how much can we repeat ourselves? When you publish your calendar to friends, or make status updates via Twitter or Facebook – do you expect your friends / contacts to keep up with you? When you [...]

meta blog

It’s taken long enough, but I’ve finally realized that it doesn’t matter if I think about things, it doesn’t matter if I have ideas, and it doesn’t matter if I’ve formed opinions if they aren’t in some way shared with the world. I use a nice piece of software called VoodooPad to jot down all [...]