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Things I like:
I’m mainly interested in various aspects of man-machine interface – starting with parsers and design of computer languages, through computer graphics, user interface design, typography and web development, to internet collaboration and rules governing communities.
I read a lot of weird things like design patterns, cognitive psychology papers, gay-ish art magazines, human interface guidelines, histories of certain rare glyphs, Zen of anything that sounds cool, visionary science fiction, w3c specifications, web comics about web comics and a newsgroup dedicated to creating certain kind of text-mode games.
“Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.”
Alan Parsons Project
Somehow you fell out of time Boy you lost your place in line But don't even try To drag me down too I'm talkin' to you, I'm talkin' to you
One star rises, one falls from the sky You're still hiding the way you feel inside One word closer to things we need to say One cut deeper to tear the past away
You think I don't know your mind I know fools don't change with time Until the warning signs Come out of the blue I'm talkin' to you, I'm talkin' to you
One light's burning, another fades away Don't stand watching your dreams go down in flames One step closer, the door is open wide Come, tomorrow we'll see the other side
On and on until we change Everything remains the same On and on until we learn On and on the wheels will turn
Wounded words and eyes that lie You won't let your daemons die Take a look inside Or you're gonna lose I'm talkin' to you, I'm talkin' to you
I'm talkin' to you Whatever you do, the last laugh's on you
On and on until we change Everything remains the same On and on until we learn On and on the wheels will turn
Somehow you fell out of time Boy you lost your place in line One star rises one star falls Do you even care at all? This time
I'm talkin' to you I'm talkin' to you
“But there is a broader lesson as well companies and investors need to focus on business models that can be sustainable over the long term in the real world economy. A common trait of many of the companies that failed is that they gave away for free or at a loss the very thing they produced that was of greatest value in the hope that somehow they’d make money selling something else. The Internet, for example, was full of sites producing content for free, in the hope that somehow they’d generate revenue from sources that never materialized, whether it was advertising, subscriptions, or a wing and a prayer. As we’ve learned or really re-learned one can’t build a business or our economic future on that type of flimsy foundation.
– Prepared Text of Remarks by Craig Mundie, Microsoft Senior Vice President The Commercial Software Model, The New York University Stern School of Business, May 3, 2001
[I corrected some of the spelling errors; grammatical errors left intact, I hope it is still comprehensible. I guess this means that Google does not exist by Microsoft’s opinion.]