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Form over Functional Websites

Friday, November 20th, 2009

There’s this interesting trend with software: The first release of a program is barebones, and only focuses on accomplishing its primary function. As the process goes on, extraneous bells & whistles are added on. In the end, you have a program that looks fancy and does a lot of stuff, but you find that [...]

Going too far in the name of ‘Security’

Monday, September 10th, 2007

This is not a diatribe on politics or a bitter anecdote of airport cavity searches, but rather the story of a humble man’s man’s humble attempts at utilizing computer labs at UW-Madison.
When I was at UW-Platteville, each user had a single account with a single username and password.  Anyone could log on to computers in [...]

The Future is Shiny

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

So, the exciting tech news this week is the announcement of the Apple’s new iPhone

I guess that makes it official: piano black is the new blue LED. Everything cool is now ridiculously shiny: the new HP laptops, Macbook, the PS3, PSP, new DS Lite, Zen Vision, and now the iPhone. Why must [...]