Monthly Archives: August 2010
Things Illy Said
Why do we dream? Where do our dreams come from? How can we think of things that aren’t real, things that don’t even exist?
HTML/JSON REST RDBM
Maybe it is me, and the people I have worked with, but it seems very hard to find a simple plug-and-play REDM UI. My thought is to have a generic Ajax interface that pushes and pulls JSON to and from a Spring or Catalyst HTTP REST server, that pushes and pulls data based upon meta [...]
Rotten Apple
It’s shiny, chic, as pretty as a laptop gets — and it is a pain in the arse to use. Equality of Access The much lauded user interface may look good, the fonts certainly do, but it is impossible to navigate without a mouse or track pad, which makes use for the blind and partially-sighted [...]
The Ideal Job
After so many years working in the same still-young field, certain themes have become apparent as prerequisite for an enjoyable and most successful contract. Self-less purpose It may sound self-righteous, silly, or naive, but true commitment is based in self-belief, and money alone does not buy this. Self-less does not necessarily mean saving the planet [...]
On the Science of Enlightenment
Whilst trying to find a way out of a terribly tedious and frustrating contract with an online retailer, the whole having almost no human contact with other workers or managers, I have been listening to the audio book, The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young. After what turns out to be some decades of practicing [...]