After interminable cleanups, file permission checking and backups (and a backup of the Tiger DVD), I installed Tiger over Panther with no problems in about an hour today. Slick! Tiger has some pretty neat new tools in the Spotlight desktop search engine and the Dashboard desktop widgets. Looking forward to learning more.
8:19:12 PM comment []
The Doc Searls Weblog posts Flattening out. "Getting Flat, Part 2 completes my long essay for Linux Journal on Tom Friedman's The World is Flat. (Here's Part 1. .... Most of what I write in Part 2 isn't about Tom Friedman. It's about the boat anchor we call the bell curve, and why continuing to shape kids with it is The West's worst handicap in a flattened world... In case you haven't noticed, my life has been one long fight against the bell curve. I recount some of that in the piece as well."
What starts out as a review (and many links to a pan) of a "new paradigm of the month" book turns into a touching, intensely personal and insightful complaint against the prejudices of the bell curve. Well worth reading and contemplating.
10:06:25 AM comment []
