Rough Drafts

It happens every December. The holiday season brings with it hordes of online shoppers, and — despite having months to […]

Vic Norton, a mathematician (and my stepfather), has published a paper on how you can use a weighted Sharpe ratio

This week’s New Yorker has a banjo cartoon.

Former Oracle business analyst Mei Lin Fung reflects on a bit of Oracle’s sales history, circa 1990. “After five to

Some Features you may Need on your Computer.

The Onion: FAA Considering Passenger Ban. “In every single breach of security in recent years, whether it was an act

Webloggers are discovering the subtleties of journalistic ethics, bit by bit. First lesson: Disclosure. If Microsoft pays your way to

Last night I watched the video release of Startup Dot Com, last year’s documentary about the rise and fall of

Steve Gillmor: “LAST NIGHT I HAD a strange dream. The DRMocrats have just been re-elected, sweeping all three houses of

Dan Gillmor notes that personal computing pioneer Doug Engelbart will be visiting a group of federal government IT executives this