rants and raves

John picked up on my note, and took the time to return with his thoughs about documentation (On Documentation). It is interesting to read the views of someone coming from the tech support part of a software house such as Macromedia – and the ways that their tasks have changed as they move more towards offering products that are made to create new applications/products, and less and less just “clean” applications like word processors. (Not that they ever did make word processors, but you hopefully understand where I am going). […]

Russ Lipton writes about documentation. I must say I share many of the same thoughs about the lack of documentation for a lot of products/technologies. (Hey John, are you reading this?). I haven’t really gone deep into Radio, but what I have seen – is that they are using their own tool (eating their own dog food) for documentation. Not sure if I like it or not, I must say that in everyday work I put in high regards the documentation for PHP – which to me is a meeting

Marc Rotenberg revisits Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: Fahrenheit 451 is not simply about book burning. This is a world where the culture of censorship has permeated the public and the where the culture of censorship has permeated the public and the private. There is no intellectual life. There is no political life. Interactive broadband technology provides endless entertainment through the full-screen images that appear on the walls of a parlor room. Words of meaning cannot be transmitted in any physical media. They must be memorized and passed on as they

Well written by Hanan Cohen about the situation in Israel and the west bank: INFO.ORG.IL – Death does not justif Death

This is probably the least cool way to access the internet I have come across so far. Sitting in LAX on the way to the airplane (going to be interesting to see how tight the security check is here, its rumored to be bad). Using Neptune terminal, and this is bad… [update] That was what I had the time to type in the 12 minutes I got for 3 US dollars at the LAX airport. The equiptment at the Internet kiosks there was pretty bad, but better than no interent

I feel out of touch, out of … well.. the basics in life. Have been without internet and e-mail access for some days now, funny how “easy” it was to connect in San Francisco compared to Irvine, Los Angeles. I guess everybody and their dog has internet access around here, but I have yet to find a Wireless internet connection hotspot that I can connect to. Which leaves the whole Wi-Fi “revolution” rather moot there in the US. Some might remember that I wasn’t able to connect to the Wi-Fi

My camera is acting up. I first thought it was a spot on the lense, but I am starting to belive it is something else, maybe a grain inside the lense. The strange thing is that it only shows up on blue sky backgrounds, but are as good as invisible on white (as far as I can see from the picures I have taken so far). Was trying to clean the lense last evening, while taking a panorama shot of the view from my hotel room, but couldn’t fix it,

Its been a really nice day here in San Francisco. Got up around 8.30, and took my time. After that I did a walk-about and just ended up at the Yerba Buena gardens, a really nice place in SF. Had a better sallad-lunch from Starbucks (amazingly), and tried something new – Ginger Lemon-lemonade :-) It was a nice and healthy lunch. Met a photographer and ended up chatting for an hour, then got back to the hotel and uploaded my pictures from the day to the laptop. :-) If the

Ok, I am here : North America > United States > California > Localities > S > San Francisco Damn it was hard to get out of SFO Airport. I don’t think they want you to leave from there, and I could teach them a thing or two about how to do the information better. I used an hour to find where the damn shuttels where. Well, to be honest – after an hour I gave up and found an independent shuttle with a very nice former-oil driller as the