chaos theory

I’m listening to a speaker from Hampton Roads Transit sing the praises of Google Transit. Last night, the folks from Alabama’s Homeland Security showed off Virtual Alabama, a statewide geospatial application built on Google Earth, which incorporated county data and aerial imagery with utility, law enforcement, school district and other data to create an […]

How do you know when you have a problem?
When you just got a nice, shiny, black Video iPod for Christmas, and have a house with no less than five functional computers in it (plus an ailing Titanium PowerBook), and find yourself trying to figure out how to squeeze a preorder for a MacBook Pro into […]

I haven’t blogged much lately for a very specific reason–I’m now building blogs at work. The first of my efforts is here.
It’s less a pure blog and more of a mash-up of blog and aggregation portal. I’m using XSL transformations and RSS feeds to create a topical site that combines a regular blogger […]

I just installed the RapidMetaBlog widget, a weblogging widget for Mac OS X Dashboard. It’s a bit better behaved than the Blogger widget I built.

Back in the heady, go-go 1990’s, when the Internet was bubbling and Capital could do no wrong, we all looked at what was going on in the US federal government, and saw deadlock. Nobody could get anything done because they were all wrestling for control. Bill Clinton squandered whatever political capital he had […]

I’m a big fan of Red Vs. Blue, a comedy video series based on and created with Halo. It’s an entertainment form known as machinima–making movies with a video game engine. It’s sort of like puppetry, without the strings.
Well, now someone has taken the whole thing to a new level. This Spartan Life […]