Don Norman has published a wonderful excerpt from his next book “The Design of Future Things” set to publish in October 2007. The excerpt is purportedly a research missive from future machines to other machines on how to deal with people. Certainly some of us lowly humans can relate to the difficulties of communicating effectively […]
I was just listening to the most recent Security Now Podcast episode 83 wherein Steve Gibson goes to pains to describe what it takes on Windows to turn off your wireless hardware. Here’s an excerpt from the transcript: STEVE: Believe or not, yes. We’ve basically snuck in an entire show on maintaining full radio silence on […]
Everyone has their own favorite language. Steve Rowe just pointed me to this funny my-language-is-better-than-yours graph. I found it really funny. I think Objective-C is just above C++ but below C. Where are you? 😉
Have you ever wondered what a Microsoft MVP was? Have you considered the performance implications of getting a Wii for your work force? Have you sat at night wishing you could just find a newsgroup to monitor? Have you wished you could have some tangible impact on the next version of Mac Office? If you […]
Frank Shaw (who incidentally has one of the coolest named blogs ever) has a great post about how our impatience can get in the way of seeing the value of things. This is one of the reasons I’m in favor of people and processes that allow for ideas to interact. It’s such a great post, […]
The following quote is from a long article on Toyota in the New York Times: Improving efficiency in the factory, though, doesn’t necessarily lead to greater profits. Savings on the assembly line can mean a nicer dashboard without making the customer pay more for it. “If you’re efficient in the things the customer doesn’t see, […]
Every once in a while me and some of my buddies will get together for lunch to prognosticate and pontificate. The “rules of engagement” are that you argue the future of technology with the assured confidence of Steve Jobs, while still being nice. 😉 Today, you won’t get the laughs, the jeers, the oohs and […]
As promised and thanks to a brave soul, here are the Easter Egg screenshots. Without the animation, it’s hard to get a feeling for scrolling credits etc., but here goes. First Office 98, then 2 Office 2001 screenshots.
From Wikipedia: A virtual Easter egg is a hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, or video game. The term draws a parallel with the custom of the Easter egg hunt observed in many western nations. In computer programming, the underlying motivation is probably to put […]
As a birthday present to MacBU Joe LeBlanc, Jessica Lambert and Matt Elggren (aka Mel) arrived at our building at 6 AM yesterday morning and setup this surprise for us! I think it’s super cool. More details at our Mac Mojo blog. Enjoy!
David Weiss 