Update to NC - High Speed Rail
Link to the High Speed Rail Meeting in Raleigh 5 April 2011
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Over a decade of progressive professional software development experience in conjunction with more than two decades as a hobbyist developer has pushed me to reduce the burden of support and cost of delivery by writing highly-maintainable software of the highest caliber.
This blog is intended to be a personal collection of experiences/rants, journaling to tech related, things and other things that may be appropriate to share in a blog.
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"The World Has Changed"
Many people claim that “The World Has Changed” when they see something they don’t recognize from before. This common phrase is a cliché. It is cliché that is used, and abused, without actual regard to gradual change or reflection of major influences. The most irritating resultant of this phrase is... [Read More] -
Letter To Rep Killian (R) on the bill "No High-Speed Rail Money from Federal Gov't."
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Selling Technology Solutions to the Classroom
Technology, since the introduction of a computer that doesn’t take an entire room, has always been suggested for educational purposes. Technology is sold as an existing off the shelf solution for teaching the youth of the country that it happens to be in. Policymakers and lobbyists tend to sell the... [Read More] -
Review: "Fooled By Randomness" by N. Taleb
“Fooled by Randomness” is a book about the negative consequences of a dynamic financial market. More specifically, the book’s focus is due to the lack of a balance criticism of the potential negative outcomes and the evaluation of performance in the market. [Read More] -
Emerging QT/KDE On Gentoo
If you are having linking issues with building QT on Gentoo [similar to filexyz.o can not link] don’t forget to remove references to pipe in the CXXFLAGS, and the multiple processor arguments on the OPTIONS flag. (-j3 etc). [Read More] -
Why Data Visualization is the Wrong Solution and How to Fix It
Data visualization is a very useful tool for summarizing, and sometimes interacting with, complex datasets. It shifts a dataset from being a detail oriented process into a more comfortable visual process. Throughout evolution humans have had a great use for visual information. Being able to see the world and recognize... [Read More]