Recently, I have devoted many cycles to the question, 'What is 'Personalized Software'? In Douglas Hofstader's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid , I came across this self-evident but illuminating passage, "If you punch "1" into an adding machine...

I went to my first SigChi meeting last night at the headquarters of Attachmate in Bellevue, WA. A dork among dorks; I arrived an hour early. First to fill out my name label, I wrote... Korby Parnell Microsoft ...in big bold letters. Apparently, I am the...

Bryant Likes posts a pointer to a multi-computer utility that I have been using with great satisfaction on 2-4 of my machines for the last three years. I love clippool. For testing in particular, it is practically invaluable (Outlook or Bug Tracker on...

Last November, I solicited suggestions for good books for the beach . Thanks for all the great ideas! One of the books turned out to be as irresistibly erudite as it is heavy, literally and figuratively. It is Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid...

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The Internet is a museum that is filled with many wonderful works of art, all of which you can appreciate from a sneeze-free distance but which, unless you intend to buy something must never, never be touched. The Internet of tomorrow-- MyInternet --is...

At the far end of a long table, safely outside Scoble's omnivourous information net, I mused aloud, "Does everyone have one of those blasted phones?" David Lemson , sitting next to me with his wife KC , pulled one out. 'Drats! They're everywhere,' I thought...

Over the last two or three years, my passion for designing and documenting collaborative development tools like Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team Foundation , and yes, even Visual SourceSafe has burgeoned into an irresistible interest in social software...

One of the most generous Microsoft benefits is paternity/maternity leave: 4 fully-paid weeks for fathers and 8 weeks for mothers. After the recent birth of our first child, we spent the first 2 weeks of my paternity leave in Hawaii. When we returned to...