Steve Freeman

From a note I just wrote to a mailing list:

I could do with some co-location. These days, much of the interesting stuff is happening in small specialised events that are scattered around the calendar and around the world. I, my family, and my body clock (and the troposphere) can’t hack it any more.

I’ve been looking […]

“Keyboads dirtier than a toilet” (BBC)

It justifies my view that eating lunch at the desk is uncivilised, and that pairing stations should have two keyboards.

Now that everything is USB, maybe we should just carry our own input devices and just plug in when wherever we’re working. Hmmm. Sounds like my dissertation, maybe I should have […]

My son has discovered Pokemon cards and now all I hear about is “Look, this one’s got a Damage of 7 and an Energy of 10.”

“Really? You don’t say.”

I have no idea what he’s talking about and it all seems overpriced.

That said, there’s one important difference, which is that my professional effectiveness doesn’t depend on […]

According to this survey, I belong in Generation X. That can’t be right.

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a little while and now I feel triggered by Keith Braithwaite’s especially grumpy contribution.

I’ve had a few discussions around the “Has Agile Lost Its Mojo” session, including with Keith. One person called me an elitist, which is an interesting term of disapproval around an investment bank. Clarke […]

Euan Semple has quoted my comment about the state of ICT education in British Schools (and elsewhere, I expect). In a more imaginative world, our education authorities would have picked up something like MIT’s Athena project, centrally administered to make it more reliable, avoiding the traps of ageing local hardware and inadequate support. The contrast […]

My mobile handset has the unfortunate property that it’s easy to press the wrong buttons when I grab at it to answer a call. I’ve just discovered that I made a rather expensive international call this Summer to the first person in my address book, called Adonica, while responding to someone else. It looks like […]

dynamicproxy writes about having his visa turned down to speak at JavaOne. He handles his frustrations better than I do. Maybe this is part of a new policy to reduce aircraft emmissions?

I hadn’t realised that OOPLSA had spiked when in Vancouver, it was certainly a great location.

I’m qualified to install Google’s new TISP service.

Barbie has a dog that, er, poops so she can clean up the mess.

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