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Derek Powazek and Heather Powazek Champ now live in the neighborhood I called my home for seven years, San Francisco's Cole Valley. (I moved to Berkeley right as the area hit the steep part of the trendiness hockey-stick curve.) It's a little place, sandwiched between UCSF's hilltop campus and the wilds of Haight Street, with Cole Street's two-block commercial zone serving as Main Street, and the N-Judah as a lifeline to the rest of the city. Recently, Derek told a heartwarming tale of collective action in the face of inconsiderate auto-owner behavior. It made me nostalgic for my Cole Valley days of mornings munching on cinnamon snails from the long-gone Tassajara Bakery and evenings downing Liberty Ale at the Kezar Pub. (But I don't miss the perennial fog.)
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There's been a lot of press about the effort being led by Nicholas Negroponte and others to develop a $100 laptop. It appears to be a well-intentioned plan, but like so many tech-industry causes, it seems to be starting from the position of "we've got the answers" instead of asking good questions and listening to people's needs. That, at any rate, is the thoughtful analysis offered here and here by personal-computing pioneer Lee Felsenstein, who has done his own work in the area of bringing computing to rural third-world communities
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I've spent a lot of time attempting to fathom the mindset and thought patterns of software engineers in the course of my labors on my book. Two sites that reflect the collision of programmers and cuisine are fascinating in their own right: First, there's Cooking for Engineers, which applies an analytical mindset to techniques for cooking bacon or making Rice Krispies treats. (Shades of the Twinkies Project!) After indulging in such fare, you can have a look at the Hacker's Diet, in which Autodesk founder John Walker explains the essential similarities between computing systems and the human body (garbage in, garbage out; calories in, calories out).
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While deepest in my book work over the past couple months I found it easier to stash links for future posting rather than to write real posts. So now I've got a backlog that I am going to unload here, in no particular order, and with no promise of timeliness.
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