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In junior high school, I took a lot of shop class. I had to take some­thing in the period. I had no artis­tic tal­ent to speak of, and enough atavis­tic sense that home ec was for girls that I spent one period a day doing some mechan­i­cal thing or another: Wood shop, metal shop, alternative […]

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Blame it on my (loosely) Catholic upbring­ing, but I grew up think­ing that bad behav­ior was addi­tive. That is, if you do a bad thing, then do it again, that’s twice as bad as if you’d just done it once. This was sup­ported by my sim­ple under­stand­ing of con­fes­sion and penance, and held up by […]

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So Cory Doc­torow, who is usu­ally a pretty smart guy, weighed in on cloud com­put­ing today. I’m inter­ested in what he has to say, so I absolutely went and checked out his opin­ion. I was sur­prised to say the least. What’s jar­ring is that his the­sis — that cloud com­put­ing is so excit­ing because peo­ple think […]

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