Month: March 2006

Specialization is for insects

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook…

3/3/2006
SXSW Preview

I’ll be posting intermittently on idiotprogrammer over the next two weeks. That’s because I’ll be liveblogging about SXSW Interactive for the Houston Chronicle’s Techblog site (Dwight Silverman’s weblog). Below is the full text of the preview piece I published today:

3/3/2006
Requirements for a PDF Replacement

From a slashdot thread, I see a list of requirements for the next PDF replacement (whatever that will be): – must require zooming in lots of times to be readable, until the page doesn’t fit on your screen – must support two-column text, so you read down, up/across, and down again – must behave differently…

3/2/2006