Katherine Maher, chief executive officer (CEO) of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) announced her resignation as CEO this week, Thursday, 4 February 2021.
In her announcement, she pointed to WMF's adoption of a Universal Code of Conduct as one of the achievements under her watch.
She also pointed to WMF's financial …
Ok, I'm going to start a new variant of my writing discipline, which I'm calling Fifteen Minutes of Rant
The precursor to this exercise was something I started a few summers ago, when I was really interested in having some basis for making and evaluating and budgeting for writing assignments …
Tags: flânerie, architecture, exercise, urbanism, openstreetmap Authors: D. Joe
I circumambulated the Mall at Greece Ridge today.
(map image and data © OpenStreetMap contributors)
Which is to say, I walked around it. Not, strictly speaking, in a circle. And not, strictly speaking, for ritual purposes, although that comparison did come to …
Several years ago, we observed the 50th anniversary of the US Supreme Court's historic, often referenced, Brown vs. Board of Education ruling, made during the first decade of the Cold War.
This ruling ending de jure racial segregation for schools in the incompletely Reconstructed, Jim Crow southeastern states.
While Brown …
From a putative but so far mostly just imagined series "Reading The Economist During Pandemic Confinement"
The Schumpeter column in the July 18, 2020 issue of The Economist, entitled When bits bite enumerates several problems with enterprise software, illustrated with recent examples.
The through-line example is VW's problems with the …
Previously I gathered some links about an idiosyncratic collection of storms that I was aware of because of some local connection, or because they had been big enough for me to hear about them when they happened even though they were remote from me.
I did not include anything about …
From Introduction: Getting Started of the TIMEX User Manual: TIMEX/Sinclair 1000
by Steven Vickers with revisions by C.F. Durang
© 1982 Timex Corporation
© 1982 Sinclair Research Limited
Welcome to the world of computing. Before you plug in your new Timex/Sinclair 1000, please take a moment to think about …
If you haven't already had the pleasure, I can recommend reading any and all of Maciej Cegłowski's Idle Words
He had gone a while without very many additions but has made several new entries recently, including this one, about the radically shifted privacy landscape we live in today:
OK, so ... I hate domain squatting. I'm not sure anyone likes to get a faceful of spam when they think they're going to one site but end up at another site, put up by a subsequent owner of the domain and usually just spam. The whole process seems wrong, but …
With hurricane Irma (September 2017) lining up to hit Florida, and Harvey having just walloped Houston, storms of the past are part of the background.
I figured I'd just put some links here to some climatological happenings over the years.
(There's nothing about this that is meant to be comprehensive …