Monday, December 09, 2002

I Totally Need A Pensieve To Hold Those Thoughts And Memories In today's AlertBox, Jakob Nielsen uses Harry Potter gadgets to illustrate where real-life gadgets should be moving... "Much of the Harry Potter books' charm comes from the quirky magic objects that surround Harry and his friends. Rather than being solid and static, these objects embody initiative and activity. This is precisely the shift we'll experience as computational power moves beyond the desktop into everyday objects." I totally use my digital camera to hold the memories and ideas that continually are crowding each other out as I move from experience to experience. My weblog holds the notes and 'second draft' of those memories, using the camera as that 'first draft'. Tomalak's Realm provides an appropriate link today by pointing to both this story and a Wired story about MyLifeBits... "...a new Microsoft research project that aims to record the essence of a person's life on computer disks: every photograph snapped, home movie filmed, Web page browsed, e-mail scribbled, phone call made or bill paid." comment []  1:35:23 PM

Phil Windley Resigns As CIO of Utah The fully blogging CIO with lots of good things to say is bowing out. If you read a little bit more of his blog, you get a taste of the why... "At one point during the lunch, he said something to me that left me incredulous: "remember, process is more important than results." Maybe I misunderstood him, but nevertheless his words were full of wisdom. The bad news is that even as late as the final week of my career in state government, I found that statement to be ludicrous. The good news is that even as late as the final week of my career in state government, I found that statement to be ludicrous. When you start to believe that, the borg has won." His "Road To The Future" (of IT in Utah) sounds like it might be a good read. comment []  1:26:20 PM