Internet forums
Wikipedia has a good article on Internet forums. I might find it handy for my presentation Thursday. Perhaps I’ll even join in and improve the article a bit. =]
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U.S. Daylight Savings Time Changes, 2007
The U.S. Congress passed the Energy Policy Act in 2005, which takes effect in 2007. DST will start three weeks earlier and end one week later than what had traditionally occurred. This is really interesting to me. Not only is time itself interesting, but we have issues of policy changes, time changes, politics, software, people,…Continue Reading…
Hiring for a Startup
I often like to entertain the idea of creating a startup. After all, the fun appeals to me, I have tons of ideas, I like to work hard (if it’s on something I’m interested in), and the potential to quickly have an effect on people’s lives is great too. Plus, you cn get rich, right?…Continue Reading…
Benefits of Y2K
It’s amazing how things seem to fit together so well. I wonder how this can all happen without some God making things work. Then again, there are many things that don’t work out. Y2K is one of computing’s successes, it seems. The paranoia caused by media publicity of the problem appears to have really helped…Continue Reading…
Companies of the future may be small
More commentary on the article mentioned previously. One upshot of which is that the companies of the future may be surprisingly small. I sometimes daydream about how big you could grow a company (in revenues) without ever having more than ten people. What would happen if you outsourced everything except product development? If you tried…Continue Reading…
Nerds accepted because they’re rich
My comments on an article from a few years back called What the Bubble Got Right. I found myself talking recently to someone from Hollywood who was planning a show about nerds. I thought it would be useful if I explained what a nerd was. What I came up with was: someone who doesn’t expend…Continue Reading…