Wed
Feb
20
Another thought-provoking podcast from SALT (Seminars About Long Term Thinking).
A “black swan,” (Nassim Nicholas) Taleb explained, is an event which is 1) Hard to predict; 2) Highly consequential; 3) Wrongly retro-predicted. We pretend we know why the big event happened, and so entrench our inability to deal with the next world-changing improbable event.
Examples: Viagra, 9/11, Harry Potter, First World War, Beatles, the PC, Google, and the rise of any successful religion. History is dominated by sudden, lasting changes wrought by deeply unexpected events.
“Never take advice from someone wearing a tie.”
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Fri
Feb
15
Nice interview with Big Dave on Software Engineering Radio podcast — Link
Installed the Apple TV update last night. I have yet to rent a movie, but I have to say the direct access of iTunes content is very sweet. HD quality is quite acceptible. Netflix is still a better deal overall, but I’ll probably end up buying a movie occasionally (my Netflix queue is full of long tail movies mostly, which will never make the iTunes catalog). Apple TV 1.0 was for me a useful device (watching video podcasts in comfort) and Take 2 takes it to the next level. Nicely done.
Sat
Jan
19
Interesting dashboard widget for accessing your del.icio.us bookmarks. Link
Wed
Jan
9
A couple interesting Leopard Quick Look plugins
Thu
Dec
20
Started my new job as a Sr. Java Developer at GoDaddy.com on Monday after 14 years with OTI..IBM. Lots of really interesting things happening here and a chance to learn some new Java web frameworks and tons of database stuff (no Ruby at the moment, though, we’ll have to see about that :-). Too bad I missed the holiday bash, everyone was talking about it on Monday. The environment here reminds me of the early days at OTI.
