D&D 4E

For the hardcore: There’s a great (and I mean great) review of the upcoming 4th edition of Dungeons and Dragons on AICN right now. (Assuming you’re not at the D&D Experience right now.)

More on Operating Systems, Choices, and on and on…

On Coding Horror, Jeff Atwood had a nice rant up yesterday - funny stuff. Reading it, my anti-Mac feelings swelled, all the while twinging with regret at the rant being written by…a Windows user.
Over at Red Monk, James Governor’s response to Atwood’s rant deepened my thoughts by pointing out how design choices reflect philosophical approaches [...]

Blogs I Like

One of the things that struck me in a piece in Wired by Jorn Barger from last December was his insistence that blogging means URLs (”A true weblog is a log of all the URLs you want to save or share. (So del.icio.us is actually better for blogging than blogger.com.)).” (Take a look at his [...]

Microsoft

With all this talk about interoperability, let us not forget Microsoft’s background philosophy (say it with me, kids): embrace, extend, extinguish.

Nabokov, Joyce, and Shakespeare’s Second Best Bed

Subtitle: Burn, Nabokov, Burn!
The current discussion of what to do with Nabokov’s posthumous work, which he wanted burned (Tom Stoppard says to burn it. John Banville says save it), reminds me of a New Yorker piece from 2006 on James Joyce’s grandson and his battle with the literary critics pulling Joyce’s work apart.
These [...]

I am overwhelmed.

Orwell, Kipling, NYTimes, William Kristol (this is the link to the piece)…I slump in amazement.
And wouldn’t you say Obama’s read Kipling? (”If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, / Or walk with kings–nor lose the common touch” (Isn’t that the rhetorical feat he’s perfected?).)

On Blogging

I’ve blogged (I had it in quotes, but it’s not a dirty word) on and off for a number of years now, although never with the intention of having other people read what I’ve written.
For a long time, I thought of blogging with an audience in mind as egotistical, so I would use the blog [...]

Who needs Zero-Day…

When exploits go unpatched for years and years?

Scoble on Microsoft

I find the debate pitting innovation and the individual programmer interesting, and Scoble makes another foray with his post today on why Microsoft makes him cry (I cry over Microsoft, too, but it’s usually things like this).
Anyway (and I really don’t hate Microsoft - I grew up with Macs and Windows PCs in the house, [...]

Welcome

I don’t have the money to host something like this on decreasedsales.com, so I’m moving the blog here. It’s searchable, RSS-able, and has all kinds of other cool stuff.
There’ll be some nice new content soon.