Month: May 2005

Is there anything interesting going on? Is anyone doing anything interesting?
Bored…bored…BORED
Sigh!
Anyone got a secret they want to share?

Kathy Sierra writes on the geography of context. The main takeaway: North Americans remove objects from their context; Asians always consider the whole picture.
A thought-provoking reminder of our differences as a species. I am defiitely guilty of removing objects from their context and looking at them in isolation. However, working with computer systems on a daily basis is one method that I find for helping maintain contextual grounding.
Ok…the above sentence was hideous. What I meant to say is that workig with complex Internet systems forces a person to always think of devices, applications and configurations in the context that they exist.
In fact, that is the main failing inside most of the organizations that I work with. There is no overarching understanding of how all of the systems work together.
So, the culture of context can exist within an organization. I gravitate towards people who are able to bring in the whole picture.
Who do you spend time with? Isolationists or Inclusionists?

Dave Winer, Happy Birthday. You’re 50..and I’m not.
Unabashed attempts to drive traffic…

This has been rattling around in my head for a day or so.
Bush and his cadre are promoting a culture of preserved life, not a culture of sustained life.
Think about it and comment.
Eschaton points out the hypocrisy in this quote:

…Gov. Bush has appointed two more secretaries to lead DCF since the agency initially mishandled Moesha’s case under Ms. Kearney, but an unfair practice of valuing some lives more than others continues to hurt some of the neediest and most fragile Floridians. In 2003, after failing to protect a severely mentally retarded woman from being raped while in state custody, DCF fought to save the woman’s fetus. Similarly, late last month, after failing to protect a 13-year-old in state custody from becoming pregnant, DCF fought to save the girl’s fetus. While the state was fighting fiercely to save the unborn, it continued quietly fighting — using private lawyers — to avoid financial responsibility for a living child, one irreversibly harmed while dependent on the state for protection.