Brain Drippings

The Boston Globe has an astonishing series of photos from the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai

So, the question came up on how to search a lot of files for duplicates, and I dashed off a quick, albeit correct, answer.  But then, as these things often do, it niggled and wormed around and I decided on a better method.  It all starts with a short little find command:

find . -type f -exec md5 {} >>mymd5s.txt \; (continue reading...)

My stance on gay rights is pretty simple, and I think the issue was covered and dealt with rather effectively 150 years ago or so: (continue reading…)

Beyond the rim of the starlight,
my love is wandering in star flight.
I know he’ll find
In star clustered reaches
Love, strange love
A starwoman teaches.

I know his journey ends never
His Star Trek will go on forever
But tell him while
He wanders his starry sea,
Remember,
Remember me.

In his article Faster Horses in the Age of Co-creation, JP Rangaswami writes, “We need to focus on making things that the customer wants to buy, rather than trying to get customers to pay for things they neither want nor need.”  He writes this in rebuttal to the famous, perhaps apocryphal, quote of Henry Ford:

If I’d asked people what they wanted, they’d have said ‘faster horses’.

Mr Rangaswami even goes on to say that if the customer wants ‘faster horses’ you give them faster horses in a variety of types. (continue reading…)

In the interest of beating a dead hose, I submitted the following to change.gov.  If you’ve been reading the blog, you’ll know I’ve harped on this a few times in the past.
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Congratulations to Barack Obama, and congratulations to the legion of supporters and volunteers and staff who made this happen.  I am proud for the role, albeit minuscule, that I played in this.  A little money, but not much since we’ve been under the economic hammer for a while.  A little time, but not as much as I would have liked since I have two kids to keep up with. But enough, this time.
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Well, the long long long campaign is over.  The doors have been knocked on, the voters have been rousted to get to the polls, and now we wait. And wait.

I want to be confident and hopeful, (continue reading…)