I am sensing some annoyance...

over on www.audacity.com. An entity that sooooo does not make audio recording software.

Machiavellian Machines

"I find it interesting that one of the key techniques we use to make things "just work" also appears to be both present and at fault when things do not 'just work'. I speak of the concept of deceit." -- Machiavellian Machines

WIKIs - a tipping point for the Web?

"Is the Web just a hyperlink's way of making another hyperlink in the same way that a chicken can be viewed as an egg's way of making another egg?" --
WIKIs - a tipping point for the Web?

Just for fun: World Cup Final Prediction

About this time during every world cup I get fed up listening to the predictions of the experts on the telly. Football is a simple game and anybody can play the pundit. That is part of its attraction.

Apparently a billion people will watch the game today. They can all laugh in unison at my prediction after the game if they want :-)

Here it is:

World Cup Final Prediction: Italy 1. France 0.

• Fabio Grosso to score early in the second half.
  
• Cannavaro to be man of the match.
  
• Henry to miss a sitter to equalise in the dying seconds.
  
• Zidane to be substituted after a bad knock to his right knee in a foul by Pirlo.
  
• Scattered showers in Berlin, Mostly in the first half.
  

Google/Plone

Google hires Plone founder. It would be easy to read to much into this and I probably have :-)

Calling fellow Leonard Cohen fans in Ireland

I know that some readers of this blog are fellow Leonard Cohen fans.

Hal Willner's Came So Far For Beauty - An Evening of Leonard Cohen songs.

The Point, October 4th.

Tickets on sale from today.

The pain of threads

"When I am down in the bowels of a software development project, I can easily spend 50 hours a week pounding at a keyboard. My wife tells me that when I am doing that, I wear a permanent look of complete puzzlement on my face." --
Pain/Gain Thresholds in Software Engineering.