Archive for January 30th, 2007

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. =]

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, perceptions, weather, and so on. Who knows what effects this will have in the future?

Continue reading ‘U.S. Daylight Savings Time Changes, 2007′

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? Here’s a striking quote from an article called How to Start a Startup on the topic of how to decide who to hire. Continue reading ‘Hiring for a Startup’

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 the world, even though the fears were unfounded. It’s kind of like the world’s first worm which was released inadvertently in 1988, and unintentionally brought down thousands of UNIX servers. It brought security to the attention of the public, as well as programmers, which almost surely helped to avert later disaster. Supposedly, UNIX before that date focused primarily on ease-of-use, with little attention paid to security.

Continue reading ‘Benefits of Y2K’

Companies of the future may be small

More commentary on the article mentioned previously. Continue reading ‘Companies of the future may be small’

Nerds accepted because they’re rich

My comments on an article from a few years back called What the Bubble Got Right. Continue reading ‘Nerds accepted because they’re rich’