A few months ago, I read a newspaper article – which unfortunately I can’t find – about the idea that software development literacy may someday seem as normal as reading literacy is today. I didn’t think it was far-fetched at all. In today’s world *everyone* touches a computer in some way, even if it’s only…
There’s an interesting article in today’s Sunday Boston Globe entitled Please do not change your password The basic premise is that the security folks are wasting their time and ours in trying to get us to use strong passwords which we change frequently. The harder they try to make us do it, the less likely…
There’s a great article in the Boston Sunday Globe today entitled The Leased Life. It talks about what is termed the “product service system”. The basic idea is that many of the things we buy we don’t buy because we want the thing itself, but what the thing can do for us. We buy tomatoes…
And I don’t think so, either. I love sitting down with the Boston Globe and finding out what’s going on in the world and locally. (I am totally at odds with the editorial slant of the Globe, but that’s part of what I enjoy!) Even better if I can read the Globe lying in the…