…is that he was interviewed by BusinessWeek.com, which has now written up the OSG Hardtack website: Finally, I promised earlier that I’d explain why OSG built this site — since my first question upon finding this site was, “Who are these guys and why did they create this?” One of OSG’s specialties is designing systems […]
National single family home inventory just went over 1.9 Million over on the Hardtack experiment For a while a few weeks ago it looked like the inventory rocket was leveling out, but in reality it was taking a short breather before climbing ever higher. I have no idea when this will slow down, but it […]
I have been fortunate enough to pick up an Apple TV this past weekend, and like a good nerd, spent a vast amount of time tinkering with it. There has been some interest and breathless anticipation waiting for this latest Apple gizmo to pop out of the Cupertino womb. Is it the “next big thing”? […]
Last year marked the start of the housing downturn in several markets. The clearest indicator was the ballooning levels of existing home inventory for sale, and the fact that these homes largely stayed on the market until Thanksgiving without moving in an appreciable way. In some markets, at the sales flow rate at the time, […]
It should come as no surprise that divining and quantifying what is happening to the housing market and the connected financial systems is a topic of significant interest for me. While there is an excellent and growing suite of web sites and Blogs around that document elements of what is happening, one piece of information […]
This ad wasn’t done by Barack Obama’s campaign — and I suspect that Steve Jobs at Apple won’t be very happy with it [*] — but, boy, it’s certainly effective (or, at least, amusing). Hat tip to The New Editor via Instapundit. ..bruce.. [*] The ad uses footage and sound from Apple’s famous ‘1984’ ad, […]
Mike Morton, a long-time friend and colleague and a Master of Anagrams, send me a link to a great story about a group of IT engineers dealing with a CEO who just didn’t understand Brooks’ Law: After failing to win several arguments on this point, the engineers became exasperated and decided to hold an intervention […]
Valleywag has a link to this YouTube video that appears to be a 1993 CBC Prime Time news report on “Internet”. It’s well worth watching, both for the unintended humor to the viewpoint of what the Internet would provide. Enjoy. ..bruce..
Yes! Really! Jobs has his own blog! I mean, read this entry and tell me that this isn’t really being written by Steve Jobs: Well the engineers want to kill me but you know what, I know how to design products. And I’m sorry, this circuit board for the iPhone is just way too friggin […]
Bad legislation, bad government and IT project failure
I ran across a blog entry this morning, Mark Steyn citing John Podhoretz regarding the uproar over the immigration bill being rushed through the Senate despite being incomplete, inconsistent and, by and large, incomprehensible. Here are the nested posts in full: Given his general antipathy to the National Review line on illegal immigration, I thought […]
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