I had a dream about a dream about a dream this afternoon. I try to always take a nap in the afternoon, just like they taught me in kindergarten. I recommend it to everyone. Don’t worry, I’m not going to tell you that God spoke to me in my dream. This dream was inspired by [...]
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Once I caught two fish alive
On Saturday my friend Harry took me out fishing on his little 20-foot sloop. It’s winter time here in New Zealand — not the best time for fishing the Hauraki Gulf. The weather can be foul, the water is cold, which means the fish are not that hungry, and most of them have moved away [...]
Copyright Food
About six years ago (around 2004) I talked about one day having a machine that, given a recipe, could produce any kind of meal, and that the food markets would morph into markets in raw materials and in software recipes. Well now there’s a serious proposal for version 1.0 of such a device. Not yet [...]
Back in the Bar with Steve Jobs
In my earlier post, I speculated on the iPhone software change that Apple would make in response to “antennagate”. I suggested that, with the new formula, bars would be assigned linearly across the full range of signal strength, from what I called zero, where a connection could not be established and maintained, up to some [...]
Untangling the iPhone 4 Antenna Issue
It’s now well known that Apple’s new iPhone 4 has a serious antenna problem. The underlying engineering issues have been well covered, for example here, here and here. At first Apple said “Don’t hold it that way”. That didn’t go down too well. Now Apple have released a carefully worded statement, which you can read here. We dismantle [...]
Kidz! They’re our only hope…
as I write this the tears flow ok the sobbing has subsided Yes, there is a movement afoot A movement to build up and to engage with our youth Sunday 13 June 2010 began a particular important 24-hour event, the Global Enterprise Challenge At precisely 9:00 pm (NZ time), synchronously (all at the same time), over [...]
US vs NZ
I’ve been asked to write about how life in NZ compares with life in the USA. Why? Because I claim the differences are hugely important! They explain at least in part WARNING: here comes that darn conceptual leap again much of your (usans) suffering What suffering?! Ok, next question … In NZ: Prostitution is legal [...]
conversation with myself
ok, i won’t give up i’m not going to sit in the corner and not not not make a noise not hide make sure no-one sees me us we us you we me the it not lay low, stay cool, don’t hurt anybody ok? please? pretty please?
what dave’s been up to?
(not fishing) I’ve been writing, experimenting with blogs. This is the latest of several quite unsatisfactory attempts. why so miserable? i’ll have to blog about that, i suppose. it’s hard! not as interactive as buzz the graphics tools are still infantile! i prefer my whiteboard but making a good video is ominously hard too! maybe i need [...]
what potus told the usans
on tuesday 15 June 2010 potus delivered a speech from the oval office what potus said: we’re having a real tough time, aren’t we? if you thought the darn recession was bad if you though al qaeda was bad sorry about all the oil, it was all a big mistake but don’t worry! I have [...]
