Archive for the 'General' Category



Another Restart. This time, Something Interesting

12Jan09

HAL 9000 Rather than try to write some­thing pro­found (at least on the sur­face), I thought I’d start writ­ing in this blog again with an obser­va­tion about today’s date, at least in terms of the His­tory of Com­puter Sci­ence: On today’s date, HAL, the com­puter from 2001: A Space Odyssey turns 17 year’s old, as […]

Back to the World of the Living (Blogs, that is)

20Oct08

After a long period where I tried to redesign this blog, I feel I’ve finally got­ten some­thing that is accept­able. Wanted to hire some pro­gram­mers and design­ers to do a real rework, but that will have to wait until I have employ­ment. I fear that drucker.ca has fallen vic­tim to the phrase: ‘The per­fect is […]

Long Time, No See?

09May08

I admit it, I’ve neglected this blog. I could pro­vide the usual excuses, but I think I’ll spare you, dear reader (if you’re still out there some­where), the expla­na­tions. I’ve been a lit­tle bet­ter about my per­sonal blog, Loud Mur­murs, but now that my con­tract at IBM is over, I have a lit­tle spare time. […]