In Cringley’ s latest article, he takes on the way business uses PowerPoint presentations. It’s about time someone spoke up about this practice of using slides in lieu of real information. Read The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint by Edward Tufte for a sobering analysis of how the truth typically gets mangled on its way through … Cringley on PowerPoint
Icy Hudson
In Thomas Friedman’s latest editorial for the NY Times, he cites Bush’s “Budgets of Mass Destruction” (BMDs) as the real campaign issue on which Democrats should focus. The Bush team’s real vulnerability is its B.M.D. — Budgets of Mass Destruction, which have recklessly imperiled the nation’s future, with crazy tax-cutting and out-of-control spending. The latest … Budgets of Mass Destruction
The Center for American Progress has an interesting piece about the differences between Vice President Cheney’s claims regarding Halliburton and the facts. It’s very enlightening…
A swan…
A pipe sticking out of the building.
More factory.
Another photograph of the factory.
When the family came to NY to help us celebrate our wedding, I made this photograph of my parents.
The mercury has risen all the way to 35°F. That’s a veritable heat wave by comparison to recent temperatures. I’m going to wake the slumbering wife (but from across the room where I’ll be safe) and suggest we go for a walk.
