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For the time being this site – http://theoa.wordpress.com/ – is not being updated…
A quick post on a cleverly made ‘bot.
Link:
http://www.mangojango.com/2011/11/clever-robot-created-by-3d-printer.html
There is an upbeat story in Techcrunch today by David Kirkpatrick about the current state of technology in the world today.
The fastest-growing resource in the world is computing power and storage.
How To Be An Optimist In A Pessimistic Time
And yet in most every country in the world today, too many people are looking for work. The only significant exception is the technology sector. Every major and minor player in the San Francisco Bay Area is looking for talent. Continue reading
Ever since I can remember, I have always wanted to be somebody who draws things. For good portions of my life I have been able to fulfill this ambition. Continue reading
Re-igniting the Mangojango web site. It will cover architecture, 3D printing, robotics, transport and design. You’ll see – they all do really combine well – when you have a utopian vision of things.
There was an angry and strong response to my post on the decrease in crime is San Francisco here.
Link:
The Decrease in Crime: The Nice Thing Nobody Tells You
I have written a number of white papers. As the Wikipedia link explains, a white paper is “an authoritative report or guide that helps solve a problem”. The ones I have written are usually prepared for people I am working with to build some kind of product or service. They are often written quickly casually being under some kind of deadline. Nevertheless they have tended to have some content interesting to me and, I hope, to others. Therefore I’ve decided to start cleaning some of the papers up and make them readily available on the web.
The first white paper I offer is called “Learning to Program”. This paper shows you how to use the Internet to learn about the Internet and then using this knowledge explains how you can be not only be a passenger on the Internet and but also one of the drivers.
Link:
http://goo.gl/aDNFJ
Consider this: the only thing anyone knows about you on the Internet comes from what you write, or what others write about you. You may be brilliant, perceptive, and charismatic in person—but if your emails are rambling and unstructured, people will assume that’s the real you. Or perhaps you really are rambling and unstructured in person, but no one need ever know it, if your posts are lucid and informative.
My daughter, Cynthia Armour, recently had a very informative article on carpooling published in a major online source for news on transportation. Driving in the fast lane – as carpoolers often get the right to do – is something we should all do more often…
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