Terry Jones

Archive for February, 2007

in praise of simplicity

Saturday, February 24th, 2007 Posted under books, tech. | Comments Off on in praise of simplicity

In her keynote at PyCon a few minutes ago, Adele Goldberg just mentioned Mitch Resnick’s book Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams. I wrote a review of the book for the ... Read more..

no coffee before 10am at PyCon!

Saturday, February 24th, 2007 Posted under tech. | Comments Off on no coffee before 10am at PyCon!

I’m at PyCon in Dallas, at the Dallas/Addison Marriott Quorum. There are 580 attendees. Morning talks start at 9 and people are milling around downstairs from 8 or so. Of ... Read more..

calculus of secrets

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 Posted under other. | Comments Off on calculus of secrets

OK, this has nothing to do with calculus, but I wanted a short title. Better would have been On the monotonically decreasing incentive to keep secrets, etc. If you have a ... Read more..

UI consistency

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 Posted under tech. | Comments Off on UI consistency

I often wonder if I’m super sensitive to issues in user interface, or if everyone notices the same things that I do. For example, when I find things that are inconsistent ... Read more..

dental mental

Saturday, February 17th, 2007 Posted under other. | Comments Off on dental mental

I’m getting a tooth crowned. I had no idea how involved the process is. I’ve been to the dentist 3 times and she tells me it’s going to be 3 ... Read more..

will they never learn?

Saturday, February 17th, 2007 Posted under companies, tech. | Comments Off on will they never learn?

I find it amazing that huge corporations are unable to see that attempts to copy protect things always fail. Here’s another one gone wrong. Undoubtedly, millions were spent on getting ... Read more..

conspiracy of sleepers

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 Posted under me. | Comments Off on conspiracy of sleepers

I don’t seem to need to sleep as much as some. I’m perfectly happy with 4 hours a night, can probably go indefinitely on 6 hours a night, and anything ... Read more..

go right

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 Posted under me, travel. | Comments Off on go right

Large passenger planes have two aisles. When leaving the plane, the right hand side always moves much faster than the left. I think this happens because the door is on the ... Read more..