Thursday, November 7, 2002

Will Rehnquist retire now that the Repub's... Will Rehnquist retire now that the Repub's have more control? - check this story out. [Ernie the Attorney] see, if Bush gets to seat a judge or two on the supreme court, then Roe v Wade might be threatened. What will you do if the right to life trumps a woman's right to control her own body? 1:27:48 PM

In SFGate: Tech Futures, Hap Plotkin describes the "technology gap", the difference between very successful companies that are fully deploying technology to their advantage, and the rest of the market, which hasn't caught on yet to the efficiencies that technology can bring to their bottom lines. The economic recovery, while stalled, simply needs to understand that there's plenty of opportunities for GDP growth in simply bringing the majority of businesses up to speed! As I consider how to pursue a career as a consultant, this thought strikes a chord! How can I become specialized enough to be able to walk into a small business in SF and say, for x dollars, I can help you use technology to increase your bottom line by x + y%? I can help you improve your marketing and your sales by reaching the emerging wired/wireless customer base... 10:42:44 AM

With Republican-led legislative and executive branches, is there a possibility that Roe v Wade could be overturned? A more likely scenario, IMHO, is that the democratic and republican party platforms will be shifting in the first half of of the 21st century, and woman's rights will NOT be a devisive issue. Or maybe that's just a hope. 10:31:09 AM

saw this cool series of family photos and have decided that my family is going to do the same thing :-) Stay tuned... 10:04:53 AM

Data as a Narrative David Gelernter's thinly disguised advertising piece Forget the Files and the Folders: Let Your Screen Reflect Life, for all it's absurdities, is still something of a thread of a good idea in his "narrative file system" thesis: the idea of desktops, files and folders is a quaint retrieval from an office world very few of us remember and an organizational tool alien to the way people view their data. No one organizes their home placing all items made by Scotts Tissue in one room, all Rubbermaid stuff in another, all Sony equipment on one shelf, Toshiba on another. We don't even keep all audio tools in one room and leave all visual tools in another. How we actually use our data is determined by the stories and narratives we wish to experience and construct. It's time we took the initiative to start building computing tools that recognize this. [Advogato] Yes yes yes! I've been mulling this meme for quite some time now. For over 6 years i've been keeping a "diary" folder, with a subfolder for each year. Lately, as my blog has taken over more of my journaling needs, my diary folder isn't as relevant, but still useful. I've been telling the folks at Apple that the Finder needs a Date view, different from sort by date, which would display items like a weblog. I think this meme also ties in with the works of Kapor and Zagerman, although I don't think they've really zero'd in on the "streaming" nature of our thoughts, and how computers should help us record, process, share, and retrieve that stream digitally. Bring it on! 9:54:39 AM