The failure is not in solving the problem, it is in the rush to judge who is responsible for a problem. Because the finger pointing scares people from wanting to be involved in solving the problem. It scares people from wanting to propose new ideas or try new things out of fear of being blamed …
Category Archive: Technology
May 12
The big blow ups?
Margaret Wente, in the Globe and Mail this week, writes that we live in an era of big “blow ups” that cannot be stopped. The problem, as I see it, is not that Wente’s smartest people in the world have no idea how to stop it. It is a combination of: People who think they …
Feb 22
Shipstone?
Last night, 60 Minutes reported on Bloom Energy and their BloomBox technology. You can read a transcript of the story here. Bloom appears to have developed a reasonably priced fuel cell technology. My thought on this was that if they can sell me one for cheap (like less than the $3000 quoted in the …
Dec 13
On Climate Debt
In recent days, there have been statements made in Copenhagen and in the press regarding the so-called Climate Debt. It has been said that the developed world (i.e. Europe, the US, Canada and Japan) owe a debt to the developing world for having emitted the majority of the anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere over the …
Nov 08
Another reason to switch to Linux
OK – I know I don’t normally use this blog to comment about technology, but sometimes I just need to vent. We have two computers in the house running Windows Vista, and it has been painful from the beginning. Networking the two machines has been a disaster, even though both are running the same …