Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Ze Frank Interview

Here is an excellent interview with Ze Frank where he discusses the creative process.

The Linux desktop enviroment: SNAFU

Apparently the Fedora project is going back to mixing and matching Gnome and KDE apps? Sigh... this mishmash of semi-effective GUI apps is why I got a Mac.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Big vs. Small

This is a hilarious comparison of working at Google to working at Meetup. It's an excellent analysis of the Big Company vs. Little Company experience as well. I like the "socialization" undertone in the list as well.

Friday, May 18, 2007

Tanny Got SERVED!

Rob Pike lays down the OS design smack on Andrew Tannenbaum.

The Upcoming Digital Media Clusterf**k

Gizmodo has an excellent survey of the upcoming "diskless" future of digital movies. Eventually, a few players in the space will win out...at least we can watch the infighting while we wait for actual movies.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

The Problem with CMM

This is an interesting critique of the Capability Maturity Model. A few years ago, I was obsessed by the idea of making an organization hit level 5, now I think of it as being banished to limbo.