Virtual Travelog Archives

2007/09

• The Immortal Game (Complexity)

2006/04

• Del.icio.us Tagroll (Reviews)

2004/08

• Movabletype 2.661 Entity Relationship Diagram (System Design)
• Online Banking with Quicken for Mac. Why I don't give a damn about free checking. (Reviews)

2004/07

• Wikipedia Article for the term Computer (Technology)

2004/05

• Unprecedented Phenomena. The Implications of the Oklo Fossil Reactors (Complexity)

2004/03

• Charles Babbage and Howard Aiken. How the Analytical Engine influenced the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator aka The Harvard Mk I (Computer History)
• Ontology Review 2: The International System of Units (SI). US Resistance to Adoption of the Metric System (System Design)

2004/02

• Vannevar Bush and The Limits of Prescience (Computer History)

2004/01

• Ontology Review 1. The NHS Common Basic Specification. Why top level Ontologies don't work. (System Design)
• Judging the likely Success of an Ontology (System Design)

2003/12

• Source Code as History (Technology)
• Visualizing the Shrinking World (Globalization)

2003/11

• Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless-B Broadband Router Problems - Low Reliability and Poor Fault Tolerance (Reviews)
• The Evolution of the Modern Computer (1934 to 1950): An Open Source Graphical History (Technology)

2003/10

• The Evolution of Cooperation - Social Software and the Shadow of the Future. (Reviews)
• The Biomorph Personal Desk (Reviews)
• The Moore School Lectures and the British Lead in Stored Program Computer Development (1946 -1953) (Technology)

2003/09

• Cyril Harris. (1898/9-1918). Rifleman R/9237 9th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps ()
• Comparing the 2001 World Trade Center Attack with the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake (Complexity)
• Economics and the Internet's Large-Scale Topology (Globalization)
• Misinformation and the Evolution of Early Computers (Technology)
• The First Railway Station: Unlikely Home for the First Computer (Technology)

2003/08

• The Art of Turing Completion (Complexity)
• The First Modern Computer - The Case for Baby, the Manchester Mk I Prototype (Technology)
• The Meaning of Invention (Technology)
• Is Traffic Congestion Leading to the Resurrection of Trolley Cars and Trams in Large Cities ? (Technology)

2003/07

• UN Commission on Human Rights Loses All Credibility (Globalization)
• Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig (Reviews)
• Emergence of Cooperation in Balinese Rice Farming (Complexity)
• Using a Balanced Scorecard to align Enterprise Architecture and System Architecture with Corporate Strategy and Business Strategy (System Design)

2003/06

• Comparing National Economies and Corporations - Just how bad was Enron ? (Globalization)
• Farce at the United Nations Human Rights Commission (Globalization)
• Ada Lovelace - The Enchantress of Number or the most Overrated Figure in the History of Computing? (Technology)

2003/05

• The Assassins. A Radical Sect in Islam by Bernard Lewis (Reviews)
• Defining Goals and Objectives for System Development (System Design)

2003/04

• The Emerging Science of Food Webs (Complexity)
• The Traveler Guitar - An Example of Fitness for Purpose in Product Design (Technology)
• Redrawing the Pentagon's new Map (Globalization)

2003/03

• The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing (System Design)
• The Interaction of Business Policy, Strategy, and Architecture in System Design (System Design)
• A Process for Prioritizing and Managing Problem Resolution in a Complex Environment (System Design)

2003/02

• The Mobile Lounges at Dulles International Airport (Technology)
• Convergent, Iterative Optimization of Solutions - Why Solving some Problems is Easier Said than Done (System Design)

2003/01

• 5 Nines and other Nonsense - Interaction of Quality Attributes in System Design (System Design)
• Software Design Reviews - Lessons Learned and Best Practices (System Design)
• Internet Cartography - Maps of the World Wide Web and other Cyber Geography (Complexity)
• The Immortal Game - Maybe the Greatest Game of Chess Ever Played (Complexity)

2002/12

• A Solution for Managing Timezones, Times, and Dates in International Internet Systems (Globalization)
• The Misapplication of Occam's Razor or the Principle of Inappropriate Parsimony (System Design)
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