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bq. To say that something is random is to say that you do not understand it.

I made this statement a “few posts back”:http://http://newstalk.eykd.net/oldspeak/2004/12/01/notes-for-a-discussion-on-evolution/, and I think this is a good time to qualify it, because it’s come up again. Sit back and relax, because to unpack this concept, a story is required.

So, I’m using [...]

On January 19th, 2005, this was the truth. | (Tags: Douglas Coupland, GUI, Internet Explorer, Jurassic Park, linear systems, Linux, Microsoft) | Comments Off

Over at Between Hope and Fear is a fascinating article connecting Eric Raymond’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar (a treatise on the revolutionary Open Source software development model) and recent events, including the rise of the bloggers as a collective fact-checking news self-organization, and the rise of Wikipedia as the largest encyclopedia in the world. [...]

On September 21st, 2004, this was the truth. | (Tags: al-Qaeda, CBS, Delphi, Eric Raymond, Microsoft, self-organizing networks, software development model) | Comments Off

Well, since I’m always mouthing off about web standards & etc. here, I’ll do so once more. If you use Internet Explorer, in any of its incarnations, or even if you’re still back on Netscape 4, you are having an inferior Web experience. While the old Navigator is just, well, old, IE is [...]

On March 3rd, 2004, this was trivial. | (Tags: ado, inferior Web experience, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, web standards) | Comments (2)

If you’ve spent much time elsewhere on this site (and if you haven’t, don’t go rushing—there’s not much there), then you might have noticed a rather enigmatic tagline on the main index:

Everyone You Know Desires Narrative Enabling Technology.

If you’ve noticed it, drink a shot of orange juice and keep playing along. You’re not the [...]

On February 7th, 2004, this was the truth. | (Tags: bank account, bank accounts, Clay, crystallization, dialogue-enabling technology, inevitable printing press, mass-media marketing, Microsoft, narrative-enabling technologies, narrative-enabling technology, systematic applications, the King, Warner Bros., wood pulp processing) | Comments (1)

Geeking out today. I took Monday off, so I’m working all day. Current task: learn Access 2000. I figured out the frustration I was feeling wasn’t due to my inability to understand what the Access 2000 Bible was trying to tell me, but due to the fact that the book simply sucks; [...]

On September 27th, 2003, this was trivial. | (Tags: Microsoft, Relational Database Management Systems, yeah—technology) | Comments Off