November 2008
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IT for Baby Names
As an information technology practitioner in the corporate world, I’m sometimes surprised and delighted when I encounter a fun and useful tool in my life outside of work. It’s more often you see clumsy user interfaces or poorly integrated tools brought into stunning relief by your background—which makes finding something done well all the more glorious.
The first is a nifty data visualization...
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“Every man creates, without knowing it - Just as he breathes - But the artist...”
– Paul Valéry, Inscription at the Palais de Chaillot
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Reading: Anathem
It’s not since Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game that I’ve been so vocal about recommending a work of contemporary science fiction. This time, it’s Neal Stephenson’s Anathem. Once I picked it up, I couldn’t put it down—all 934 pages (if you include the ‘calca’ proofs in the back).
It is a thought provoking look into two different...