Communicating in a networked world
Responding to Infoworld Did PHP kill the Java radio star? Zend's CEO, Andi Gutmans, claims that PHP is disrupting Java. Meaning that PHP has gotten a significant toehold and is dislodging Java from its position as the granddaddy of server-side web … [Continue reading]
Suddenly this afternoon at 5pm I started receiving a bunch of tweets (Twitter messages) from friends. That’s not unusual, but these tweets didn't make much sense. Obviously a couple of my friends were chatting back and forth using Twitter, but of … [Continue reading]
Solar cells on an outhouse? Yup. In the coastal headlands of Marin County. We see these in the Sierras (the mountains) as well, in some high-traffic publicly-accessible areas of the wilderness. Usually the solar cells in the mountains are powering … [Continue reading]
Approaching the cash register at Starbucks I noticed this perhaps puzzling message on the little LCD display. It has nothing to do with the economic meltdown, or the amount of cash in the cash drawer, but instead reflects a programming … [Continue reading]
This is more fun than any sporting event. The US Geological Survey long ago automated their earthquake reporting instruments and it has become somewhat of a sport to see how fast we can report the shaking intensity and other details following even … [Continue reading]