In a recent e‐mail, a French co‐worker wished me a happy new year and added, “I wish you to be able to do this year everything you were not able to do last year.” I’m not sure if that’s a translated French saying or simply a poetic aside, but I like it a lot.
Month: January 2007
Relying on software to pick colors for you is like letting your mother pick your clothes.
Gladwell on Enron: a mystery, not a puzzle. Everything he’s saying is correct, but it seems like it’s the job of a company’s management not to let themselves get into a financial situation that’s so hopelessly complex that nobody on earth can make sense of it. And it’s the job of the government to regulate the ways in which companies can get sleazy with their books.
danah boyd on ephemeral profiles. In this same vein, for several of my friends it was common to have several different IM screennames reflecting several different levels of availability. So if you’re writing a paper and don’t want to have eight different conversations with random acquaintances, you can switch to a login that only your “inner circle” knows, rather than sign off entirely.