Since 1958, the Netherlands has undertaken an enormous series of projects called Delta Works, to build storm surge barriers and dams to protect their land from flooding. One of the most recently…
Is the Australian economy exceptional? Possum Comitatus writing at Crikey argues that it is:
So this is our economic reality – we are the wealthiest nation in the world with 75.5% of our adult…
Classic infographic by Vali Chandrasekaran at Businessweek: Correlation or causation?
Need to prove something you already believe? Statistics are easy: All you need are two graphs and a leading…
Having picked up my new iPhone 4S last week, I was struggling to find what the physical difference was between my new phone and my friends’ old (and oh so outdated) iPhone 4 models.
It turns out…
This morning I was trying to do what should be a trivial operation with any modern operating system: forward traffic destined for a UDP port on my machine to a different port on the same machine….
Even though he’s talking just about the development of his iPhone application, Buzz Andersen hits the nail on the head about why quality matters for the long-term success of any software product:
Early next week, Liz and I are heading off to China for a long holiday. We’re travelling for eight weeks, with only the loosest of itineraries. It’s going to be an exciting adventure into the land…
Recently, I’ve become a fan of using proper punctuation in web pages. This includes simply expanding the range of punctuation I use to include a variety of dashes, fractions and symbols,…
Yesterday, Sun was acquired by Oracle for $9.50 a share. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is quoted in the New York Times:
He said Java, the language used in most computer science schools and a…
