JDJ: Putting a Face on SOA
My first published article, “Putting a Face on Web Services and SOA,” just came out in the March issue of Web Services Journal. Very exciting.
Author: Michael
How to lose a flame war
Mike S. also chimed in on my flame war, introducing Godwin’s Law, which states that: in any Internet flame war, as soon as someone makes an analogy to the Nazis, the discussion is over, and the person who made the analogy has lost the argument. as the length of the…
Hunting with Scalia
My friend, Mike S., made a hilarious comment to me over drinks at Casanova this evening. I think everybody has forgotten the story of Vice President Dick Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia going on a duck hunting trip together in Louisiana just a few weeks before the Supreme…
Last moments
Ever since October, I’ve been going over my Dad’s last moments in my mind. Over. And over. And over. Can’t get ’em out. Probably never will. But maybe writing them out will make them run through my head less frequently. Be forewarned: this post is about the death part of…
Profile of Edward Glaeser
Last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine had, to me, a fascinating profile by Jon Gertner about the economist Edward Glaeser and his views about urban development, real estate prices, and zoning restrictions. Gertner wrote that Glaeser recently completed a study on the Boston metro residential real estate market between 1980…
Scooter Flame War: Equipment makes the photo?
Now that my initial ire has cooled, I am reminded of this awfully terribly politically incorrect picture about internet flame wars on a fark.com thread sparked by an article about some entertainment figure insulting the organizers of the special olympics. Always a bit embarassing to become part of a flame…
Scooter Flame War: Don’t share, unless you share our way
Had a frustrating interaction with a couple of folks in the scooter crowd. A friend suggested that I share my pictures of High Rollers, so I posted a link to them on the San Francisco scooter group on Yahoo. First comment was from a guy asking me to put my…
The problem of light in the night
The only picture from The Strip that caught my interest at all was of the volcano in front of the Mirage. I camped out at this hotel for 35 to 40 minutes, initially waiting for the “eruption” to start, and then to snap pictures during the fairly lengthy eruption. I…
The Strip
I uploaded the photos I took of the Las Vegas strip today. A bit disappointing. Lesson number one was about timing. I mean, I think pictures of Las Vegas have to be taken at night. Daylight and Las Vegas just don’t fit together in my mind. But I didn’t plan…
High Rollers Weekend
The High Rollers scooter rally claims to have the largest scooter ride in the nation: a ride to the Hoover Dam that supposedly involves close to a thousand scooters. I have no idea if that was the case. That ride was all about going as fast as one possibly could…