Dan Rodney has a great list of OS-X shortcut keys, including the (to these Windows learned eyes) foreign menu symbols that can be so confusing at first glance: Mac Central.
Author Archives: Karl
George Carlin wouldn’t want the eulogies
But they will be unavoidable today. So all I will say is when I get home tonight from work, I’m going to have a good drink in his name.
You made us laugh. And think. At the same time.
We’ll miss you George.
Not all of us, but that is as it should be, how you preferred it, and that is why you left an impression on so many.
Metafilter: George Carlin Dead at 71
In my thoughts
Doc Searls has been blogging from the hospital these past few days and its been at times frightening and at times heartening to follow as each days up and downs are shared. Doctors have found three pancreatic cysts, but should be on his way home soon.
Welcome Back Shelley Powers
Shelley Powers is blogging about her latest book at Painting the Web, about all things society and tech at RealTech, on personal matters at Just Shelley, and about Missouri at MissouriGreen Her latest posts at MissouriGreen are covering the sandbagging efforts she has been taking part in and have been harrowing.
The news coverage of the weather and floods has been spotty at best. I’d like to urge folks to donate to the Red Cross (probably what Richelle and me will do this week) but I don’t know if that’s the best route to help for those of us so distant and disconnected.
Two Interesting Visualizations
Boing Boing: Death and Taxes, and a Boing Boing story
Back Surgery in Philadelphia – To Do It Or Not
So much conflicting research!
ABC News: Back Surgery Can Quickly Relieve Pain
MedicineNet.com: Back Pain Often Ends Without Surgery
Two links on content management
Advogato: Advogato: The Myth that Content Management is easy
Rajiv Pant (my old boss at KRD): Future of Content Management for News Media for Web sites
Related:
The single most important skill for a software engineer
“How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python”:
The goal of this book is to teach you to think like a computer scientist. This way of thinking combines some of the best features of mathematics, engineering, and natu- ral science. Like mathematicians, computer scientists use formal languages to denote ideas (speciï¬cally computations). Like engineers, they design things, assembling components into systems and evaluating tradeoffs among alternatives. Like scientists, they observe the behavior of complex systems, form hypotheses, and test predictions. The single most important skill for a computer scientist is problem solving. Problem solving means the ability to formulate problems, think creatively about solutions, and express a solution clearly and accurately. As it turns out, the process of learning to program is an excellent opportunity to practice problem-solving skills.
Two from Yahoo!
Webmonkey: Get Started With the Yahoo HTTP Geocoder API
Yahoo! User Interface Blog: Patterns for Designing a Reputation System and more at their Design Pattern Library.
Applicable to Hillary Clinton
While I haven’t figured out who is my favorite historical figure, Antonella’s tagging of me seems especially relevant in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s run for the Presidency.
Make sure to read it if you haven’t: “Well-behaved women seldom make history”.
The more I think about it, the more I believe that while she did some self-inflicted damage to her own campaign, and her knocks to Obama made her seem hypocritical, much of the news media, in retrospect, was biased, and its behavior towards her couldn’t be considered anything else then sexist.
I hope history recognizes her as someone who broke down barriers for those that will follow.