Agile Documentation

A coworker of mine showed me to a good book to add to the stack of “agile” guides that have been building up lately. Agile Documentation is a guide to producing clear, concise documentation without getting bogged down in details or spending more time documenting than developing. Managers love documentation and developers hate [...]

One Country, Under Surveillance ..

When you hear about all of the quasi-legal wiretapping going on with AT&T, you have to wonder “how could things get this bad so quickly?”. A lot of people have been tossing around the famous Benjamin Franklin quote regarding liberty vs safety, and it is very hard to disagree with it .. because it [...]

Nineteen Eighty-Four

I made a reference to Nineteen Eighty-Four about a week ago, drawing some parallels between the book and recent events. I realized that I had not read the book in over 10 years, so it was time for a refresher. I think this is one of those books that everyone should read, no [...]

A good multi-car pileup

I mentioned in an earlier post (as part of my highway rant) that Americans need to start thinking about cars and transportation in a different way in order to ensure that our infrastructure can continue to support our way of life. MIT is a taking a step in the right direction with their prototype [...]

The Global Warming Scam

Yup, I said it. I’ve said it before too, and it will be a long time before anyone will convince me that global warming (if it is even happening) is caused by man. Unfortunately it has almost become taboo to disagree with the theory of global warming, which is bad for any type [...]

Orwell was right, just off by a few years

I ran across a story on Digg about AT&T spying for the U.S. Government and it contained a link back to an archive of *dozens* of articles regarding the Bush Administration’s warrantless domestic surveillance. Qwest smartly turned down the NSA when they were asked to help in the spy games, so they went up [...]

Top Headlines You Never Saw

We depend on the media to tell us what is going on in this crazy world, but where do you go when the media refuses to report or provides minimal coverage for important issues? Money rules the world, and media corporations are not exempt. This is where Project Censored comes in, and the [...]

This would be funny if ..

it didn’t seem possible to be true: Bush Gives Musharraf Tips on Eliminating Democracy
It is pretty bad when you read something like this and have to check the byline if it was written by a reporter or a comedian. I think Jon Stewart said something to the effect “only the jester can tell [...]

Stopping the Police State

I ran across this video about the creation of a police state for the second time in a month, and it makes some very good points about the gradual loss of liberty in the United States. The extreme example given is Nazi Germany and the Holocaust — Hitler did not take Germany by force, [...]

Google Convergence?

Google has become a name synonymous with Internet searching. When you look for something online, you don’t search, you “Google it”. After building what is arguably the best search engine ever, they kept getting going. They started moving beyond searching, first with a new approach to e-mail, then some cool applications like [...]