Blog posts

1. The Thermostat Fallacy

   I’ve always called this collection of phenomena thermostat fallacies , but my dad does HVAC for a living, so, go figure. I’m not even sure that they are proper fallacies. The premise In our cars, the…

2. The Paradox of Controls

   Given an effectively infinite set of behaviors, and a limited set of actors, the simplest and most common control strategy to restrict the behavior of actors seems to be: Deny any known forbidden…

3. Eggcorns in Technology: A list

   In linguistics, an eggcorn is an idiosyncratic substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound similar or identical in the speaker’s dialect. The new phrase introduces a meaning that…

4. On the iPad

   What is interesting about the iPad? There are a bunch of technologies making interesting convergences in the iPad including search, mobility, task oriented Human Computer Interaction (HCI), and…

5. Shmoocon 2010 Advice

   I write here this morning in an attempt to return from a self-inflicted unhappy state. One of the reasons I maintain archives of my content here — embarrassing as it always is — is because I force…