Meandering Thoughts #50
This BBC article dissects how tennis line judges are being replaced by electronic line calling at professional tournaments - this year, Wimbledon - and asks how future umpires, who started…
Meandering Thoughts #49
I don't understand how it works. It's not how I would have done it. The code is absolute crap. It's over-architected. All too often software engineers drop these phrases as…
Random Learnings #57
My wife and I are traveling to Switzerland this fall for some bucket-list train rides, including the Glacier Express between Chur and Zermatt. The Glacier Express requires seat reservations which…
NDC Oslo 2025
NDC Oslo is a software development conference in Oslo, Norway, part of the NDC Conferences portfolio. Originally focused on Microsoft technologies - I believe NDC stands (stood?) for Dot Net…
Computers IRL #6
As a user of Microsoft Windows - whether software developer, business user, or generic web browser - it's inevitable that you'll see this dialog, usually at a most inopportune time.…
Meandering Thoughts #44
I'm in Norway to attend and speak at NDC Oslo and - typical of tech conferences - plenty of random entertainment for the attendees. What did I find? Pinball! Of…
Devoxx Greece 2025
I submitted multiple talks for this year's Devoxx Greece, and, happily, the reviewers selected Demonolithing The Monolith? Forget It! to be presented. I've given this talk previously (including other Devoxx-branded…
Computers IRL #5
An information kiosk at the Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece obviously woke up on the wrong side of bed on the day I visited. And no one to press <F1>…
Meandering Thoughts #41
Do tech-saavy children hear Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer and wonder why Santa just doesn't use GPS? Image Credits "Hermey & Rudolph" by In Memoriam: K!T is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
Let’s Play Office!
Did you ever play School as a child, perhaps with your sister as a teacher and you and your siblings as the students? Or raided your mother's pantry for canned…