January 2005 - Posts

Building Anticipatory Software
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, Read More...
Posted 31 January 05 10:56 by KorbyP | 6 Comments   
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Visualizing Whirled Wiki
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 Read More...
Posted 28 January 05 10:32 by KorbyP | 3 Comments   
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Clippool is Cool. But is it Safe?
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 Read More...
Posted 24 January 05 01:02 by KorbyP | 6 Comments   
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Word of the Day: Recherché
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 Read More...
Posted 22 January 05 10:15 by KorbyP | 5 Comments   
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The Ten Tenets of Personalization for Social Software Development (link to article)
A beginning... Read More...
Posted 19 January 05 05:47 by KorbyP | 3 Comments   
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Drool Tool, Smartphone, or Status Symbol for Geeks
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. Read More...
Posted 17 January 05 10:52 by KorbyP | 9 Comments   
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Dream Job #2
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 Read More...
Posted 13 January 05 10:52 by KorbyP | 94 Comments   
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Happy, Hansa, and Sleepy in Seattle
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 Read More...
Posted 05 January 05 10:59 by KorbyP | 7 Comments   
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