Monthly Archives: May 2007

Smokey Pete’s Tavern bans guns in these premises

Posted on May 28, 2007 by

Seen in Minneapolis: The fact that they needed to make it explicit somehow fails to reassure me.

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ICSE 2007, Day 3 (and last)

Posted on May 26, 2007 by

Some pointers to interesting research presented on the third –and last– day of the International Conference on Software Engineering: Information needs of software teams: Andrew Ko reported on a nice paper about the kinds of information needed by developers in … Continue reading →

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ICSE 2007, Day 2

Posted on May 24, 2007 by

Second day at ICSE, and again a nice batch of paper presentations: Testing: John Rooksby & Co. presented an ethnographic study of testing in a small company. They pointed out how “rigour” in testing is constrained by dynamics of customer … Continue reading →

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ICSE 2007, Day 1

Posted on May 24, 2007 by

Some notes of Day 1* of the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering, from Minneapolis: To me, the high point of the day, and quite possibly of the conference, was a panel session on “Retrospectives on Peopleware”, with Barry Boehm, … Continue reading →

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Monbiot on Global Warming

Posted on May 22, 2007 by

I have just finished reading George Monbiot’s “Heat”, and I have to recommend it fully. It is a thoroughly researched, brilliant book on global warming and the actions we must take to mitigate its consequences. Monbiot starts by voicing the … Continue reading →

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Cinco de Mayo?

Posted on May 5, 2007 by

Completely off-topic, but I had to throw this little rant somewhere: When I first came to Canada I expected to find lots of people with the ranchero-in-the-desert stereotypes of my home country (not that Mexicans are any better when it … Continue reading →

Posted in Mexico, Off Topic | 6 Comments

xkcd’s map of online communities

Posted on May 2, 2007 by

This map from webcomic xkcd is absolutely cool: Among my favourite bits: The sunken island of Usenet, the small “Attractive MySpace Pages” peninsula in proportion to the huge MySpace kingdom, and how the Bay of Angst shores on Xanga and … Continue reading →

Posted in Hype, Information visualization | 1 Comment