just thinking out loud
Software guru Bruce F. Webser takes a unique look at the House’s health care reform bill, HR 3200, and finds is lacking. The article – “HR 3200 from a systems design perspective (Part I)” — is part one of an expected three in which he critiques the bill by analogizing it to a complex software [...]
I finally got the last pieces for my new computer, and got it put together. I went ahead and put Vista on it, along with MS Office 2007. Although I’ve seen a lot of criticism of both, I have to admit that I am liking them so far. Especially MS Word. I am an old [...]
Just a quick note. I have known about Twitter from some time, and have been curious about it, so today I took the plunge and signed up, just to see what it was all about.
Codeweavers, maker of the Crossover line of software, is giving away — free, gratis — copies of its software tomorrow, Tuesday, October 28, 2008. For more information, read this press release. Crossover is used to run Windows software on Linux (or Mac OS). I’ve used it for many years, primarily to run MS Word, but [...]
Congratulations to Elon Musk’s SpaceX team. From the Wired blog discussing their feat: SpaceX’s Falcon 1 became the first privately built liquid rocket to orbit the Earth tonight, following in the footsteps of SpaceShipOne which became the first privately built crewed spaceship to fly suborbitally in October 2004. One other thing they both have in [...]
