Henri's blog

Or How Computing Continues to Careen up the Exponential Curve

Switching, that is the key to every breakthrough technology ever invented. Railroads depend on it to get their freight to the right location. Cars depend on it to run every subsystem under their hood. Delivery systems running to your home; gas, electric, water and phone all depend on switching to function.

Or Now That We Have A Leader Can We Learn How to Follow?

Watching Obama play with the ideas that summon up a press corpse in these fractious times is fun. Never mind that journalism is dying as the newspapers gasp for money and advertising. Never mind that even the mindlessness of the Super Bowl was not quite the commercial success for the TV producers involved this year. Just enjoy the fact that just for one shining moment someone answered questions for serious people who really want to hear answers. And one hell of a lot of us watched him do it.