For a dramatic change of pace, I have actually been busy at work lately. Even enjoying myself and feeling like a real programmer again! I actually worked an hour late yesterday because I was on a roll and didn’t want …
Month: April 2013
Other people’s money
Dan Loeb Simultaneously Solicits, Betrays Pension Funds
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/dan-loeb-simultaneously-solicits-betrays-pension-funds-20130411
The list of unhanged scoundrels that call Wall Street home (and use _your_ money to finance their exorbitant lifestyle) is huge, this guy is just one. I found this quote quite to …
Monkey speek
Monkey chatter smacks of human speech, researcher says
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-me-sci-sn-talking-monkeys-20130408,0,3583780.story
It makes a lot of sense to me that speech evolved gradually and that we would be able to find more primitive versions all around. One of the major conundrums surrounding …
Be afraid, be very afraid…
Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet
http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/08/technology/security/shodan/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
I touched this a bit earlier, but it is worth bringing up again. We, as a society, are running around with our pants down around our ankles and are not …
Medical squeeze not just for patients
Doctors driven to bankruptcy
http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/08/smallbusiness/doctors-bankruptcy/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
There is an uncomfortable element with any change in paradigm (for better or worse). In order for there to be any winners, there always have to be losers. Sometimes the losers just have some bad …
Lesterland
Why Washington is corrupt
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/07/opinion/lessig-washington-corruption/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
I thought my reader(s) might find this amusing. To me it is an effective way of summarizing why our government is the way it is (focused on the care and feeding of the oligarchy). I …
Human cyborg, relations
Knowledge is Health
http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/knowledge_is_health/
This is an interesting article, but what struck me was the idea that we (as a society) have already become cyborgs (the melding of machine and man), what with our dependence on smart phones and all. …
Quite ammmmuuuuzzzing…
I’ve been sick the past few days. I think I got my boy’s bronchitis (that is not supposed to be contagious) and am hacking up a storm. Been watching lots of ‘tube, but nothing that prompted me to blog until …