Phil Wolff: technologyLike art, technologies are ideas made real. Technology on dijest.comDoes the Queen Mary 2 have enough life boats- January 28, 2004 I saw a picture of the Queen Mary 2. Ten lifeboats on a side, 20 in all. The ship can carry 2620 passengers and 1254 crew. So 3874 into 20 is 194 people per life boat. But you need to plan for some boats being more full than others, some breakage, etc. So let's assume 10% overcapacity, or about 215 per boat. Most restaurants don't have that capacity. Do the QM2's boats Who built them Do the lifeboats have boats, food, electronics, storm shellshttp://www.google.com/search?q=%22queen+mary+2%22+safety+lifeboats John F. Kerry wins in Iowa. 1 down. 49 to go.- January 21, 2004 OK, I gloated for an hour. I'm only a little surprised. A few factors contributed to the success. The big management change in the Kerry camp in November. Strong organization on the ground. All the candidates spent a year turning up voter turnout. With high turnout, a GOTV machine isn't a competitive advantage. Kerry put all of his energy behind one punch. Can he keep his balance and sustain that level of effort Will the same tactics that worked in a 2.9 million person..http://www.eastbaykerry.com/ Brain rich environment.- January 16, 2004 Susan Mernit called. 30 minutes later I'm in a North Berkeley bakery with J.D. and Mary. "J.D. Lassica" I ask. Indeed it is. I didn't tell him to his face, but I've been learning from J.D. for more than a year now. That whole big J in the "blogging as journalism, blogger as journalist" meme. Thinking about ethics. Management as journalism. Publicprivate tradeoffs. Truth squads. He's quieter in person than on his blog (maybe that's called "listening", Phil). Stuff I didn't get to mention...http://dijest.com/aka/categories/technology/2004/01/15.html#a2693 Emergent Democracy and the Digital Divide.- January 7, 2004 Wealth Bondage's The Happy Tutor wrote: So no computer, no emergent democracy for you, right Who here speaks for the illiterate or the working poor Is being informed a right or a responsibility How about being connected Must literacy be prerequisite to choosing your representative Considering the role statistics play in election and governance, how about numeracy Computer literacy Geomancy Democracy emerges whether we like it or not, or so it appears; pluralism will out. The process...http://www.wealthbondage.com/2004/01/06.html#a1349 Wishlist: The Standalone RSS Autodetective Client- January 5, 2004 I really want a standalone autodetection tool. As I surf, it will: live in the Windows system tray parse pages for urls pointing to syndication formats like RSS and Atom verify those feeds exist and collect their metadata write a log file of the detection and verification info, in OPML display the number of new discoveries when hovering over the system tray icon push the file to a server, periodically and optionally. By being a separate application from the RSS newsreader, the...http://dijest.com/aka/categories/technology/2004/01/05.html#a2683 |