Fred Sampson's Radio WeblogWhat forest? What trees?Fare thee well, Mr. Clarke- March 19, 2008 Clarke's Three Laws: 1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.Arthur C. Clarke, Premier Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 90. Mr. Clarke was a writer whose seamless blend..http://radio.weblogs.com/0107659/2008/03/18.html#a1525 QOTD- March 10, 2008 "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."Thomas Jefferson. Quotes of the DayRecently a friend told me "you're very lucky." I had to ask what she meant, and she listed off a number of positive things in my life that, from my perspective, have nothing to do with luck: I worked for them, and made conscious decisions to do so. I don't believe in luck--it carries too much connotation of fate or destiny. And too often it's used as a synonym for chance,..http://radio.weblogs.com/0107659/2008/03/09.html#a1524 Better than embedded reporting- March 10, 2008 Two recent posts on embedded assistance, my new specialty; one from Heidi Hansen, even though she doesn't mention EA specifically:Great user experience designs that don't require manuals I came across this "you won't need them" verbiage this morning on an FAQ page and had to share it. The founders of this Web app, Tick, seem to think that it's so easy to use that you won't need even one Help topic as you use it. . . I applaud an app that has such great usability that a lengthy user guide is not.http://radio.weblogs.com/0107659/2008/03/09.html#a1523 QOTD- March 8, 2008 Hoo boy, this has to be the most dead-on quotation I've read in a long time:quote on measuring success. "The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year." - John Foster Dulles swissmissI'm taking that one to work on Monday, and putting it into my annual goals statement. If I'm still fixing the same problem next year, something's very wrong.http://radio.weblogs.com/0107659/2008/03/07.html#a1522 I knew it, just knew it- March 8, 2008 Daylight Saving Time wastes energy. Billions of dollars, just in Indiana. The stupid, misguided idea that moving the beginning and end dates would save energy was wrong. Stupid. Wrong. Someone sold the idiots in Congress a bill of goods, and we're paying for it. And just when it's getting comfortably light in the morning at the time when I'm normally heading off to work, they're taking away an hour of precious light at the beginning of the day--starting this Sunday--and giving it to the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0107659/2008/03/07.html#a1521 |