a blog about information
I’ve wrestled with this issue for a few decades now, through the Strassmann and Carr arguments and a whole slew in between. And sometimes it feels a bit like The Emperor’s New Clothes. It’s just not done (in polite circles) to point out the guy’s not wearing any. When I look back over the years, … Continue reading “IT Project ROIs”
It looks like I’ve been found out. I’d been interested in blogging ever since I discovered the emergent blogosphere many years ago, egged on by RageBoy, Halley, Doc, Dan, Kevin et al. And sometime in 2003 I started toying with the process, after a dinner organised by Doc and Halley in New York that May. … Continue reading “The kernel for Confused of Calcutta”
I’ve never driven a car in my life. I need to learn how to. I will, soon. In India, when I was growing up, if you were rich enough to have a car, you were rich enough to have a driver. So I didn’t drive. My father never drove, neither did my grandfather. But my … Continue reading “Thinking more about innovation and path pollution: A long post”
I love reading Tara at HorsePigCow; she writes stuff that’s sufficiently off-beat to make me think hard and go places I didn’t plan to go. Which is a good thing. Tara recently posted on the death of the browser, and then followed up after a comment by JulesLt. And it made me think. About the … Continue reading “Four Pillars: On analog and digital lives”
We spent the weekend with my mother-in-law down in Chichester. She lives in a wonderful flint cottage, quintessentially English in every respect. Including its garden. Of late she’s been thinking of moving home, mainly to switch from living on four levels to living on one. She’s a talented artist and sculptor, and is very meticulous … Continue reading “Four Pillars: On snowballs and seeds and digital rights”