How Design Can Save Democracy It’s an interesting series of articles and the New York Times interactive feature is well worth browsing. And the problems they address are also relevant to web site design and to application development: by clearly segregating instruction from function (in this case, how to fill in the ballot from the [...]
Many years ago I got a DSL connection with a fixed IP address. I paid a fortune per month to run that fixed IP address, but the nice thing was being able to put my server on-line so I could run my own e-mail server, my own web server, and my own source control system. [...]
The application checklist for applying to graduate school includes the following: A completed application form. A Statement of Purpose At least 3 letters of recommendation. Additional information, such as abstracts, resume, list of publications, etc. Essentially a CV or the work equivalent. GRE test scores. I’ve completed #5 in the list above. I have until [...]
Well, I got an interesting correspondence yesterday and a follow-up today–and in investigating I realized that there were some primitives in my ASN.1 BER library which I failed to handle back when I wrote this two years ago. Originally I wrote the library because I was interested in building my own LDAP engine. I had [...]
I have a meeting in downtown Los Angeles, right off a subway stop at 7th street. So I thought I’d take the subway. Why not; if I’m going to help pay the fourth billion dollar tax bill of the subway I may as well get some value out of it, right? A few notes: first, [...]