by Thomas Otter | January 28, 2009 | 3 Comments
from rpongsaj‘s flickr cc license (thanks) Today is International Privacy Day, and it is all over the blogosphere. This is a good thing. Generating awareness about privacy is goodness indeed. But I find Eric’s position on Techcrunch that losing your privacy is the price to pay for on-line participation and collaboration rather depressing. The [...]
Category: Social Software history privacy software industry Tags: international privacy day
by Thomas Otter | January 24, 2009 | Comments Off
I’m not a mathematician, not even by the wildest stretch of imagination. I reckon I have about another 3 years before the kids homework will defeat me. However, I’m a big fan of the history of mathematics and science; Riemann conjecture, Nash equilibrium, Gauss and number theory, Mandelbrot and so on. I’m a sucker for [...]
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Category: history Tags: archimedes, leibniz, maths, newton
by Thomas Otter | January 21, 2009 | 2 Comments
There has been some discussion here in Gartner about monitors and productivity for developers and knowledge workers. Many of us work from home, and several have multi-monitor set ups. This is Mark’s set up. Here is mine. I’m feeling a tad inadequate. A mere 22"wide screen monitor and my T61 notebook screen. Depending on what [...]
Category: UI cost optimization software industry usability Tags: monitors, productivity
by Thomas Otter | January 13, 2009 | 5 Comments
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines. Whatever she does, whether she is a sysadmin or a tech entrepreneur, a [...]
Category: Events software industry Tags: AdaLovelaceDay09 women technology Suw
by Thomas Otter | January 3, 2009 | Comments Off
As some of you know, I’m labouring away at what must be one of the longest part-time PhDs ever. My research is looking at how software code and law work or don’t work together. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel. In order to add a bit of empirical juice to will [...]
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Category: software industry Tags: survey launch Phd
