Embracing the Cloud

As Andy mentioned, our office (in fact, our entire building) was broken into on Monday night. The burglars were laptop specialists, leaving behind all but one desktop (a brand new Mac tower) and more than a dozen flat-panel displays. My laptop was among those stolen, giving me an opportunity to reflect on my personal computing continue…

Signal, Noise and Neal Stephenson’s New Novel

I’m a big fan of Neal Stephenson’s brand of “realistic” science fiction (Snow Crash is one of my all-time favorites), so this TechCrunch headline caught my eye: “Neal Stephenson’s New Novel Makes Me Want to Kill the Internet“. The headlined post is a review of Stephenson’s new novel, Anathem, and in it the reviewer describes continue…