An interesting debate has taken shape over the past 5 years or so about the severity of content filtering within K-12 networks. When I say content filtering I mean school districts being asked, by law, to restrict access to sites that are potentially dangerous in some way for them to access.

I went back to where I grew up just outside of Detroit this past weekend. It was a great treat to eat at the places I loved as a kid (Buddy’s Pizza), go to a Detroit Tigers baseball game in their awesome ballpark, and spend time with family.

My wife & I flew in just before a huge storm.

I have been using iWork ‘08 since Friday as a part of their 30 day trial program and I love it.

One of the things I’ve always bemoaned about my beloved MacBook is that I have to run Crossover Mac + Office 2003 to get office suite interoperability in a nice package. iWork now features an application called “Numbers” so that I have interoperability between Word (Pages), PowerPoint (Keynote), and FINALLY Excel (Numbers).

I often think about user interface design for computer applications and specifically web based applications.  My thoughts often revolve around the “rules” of these interactions.  For example: Most users interacting with an application will do it using their keyboard, their mouse, and a web browser of their choice.  Since I cannot impact those tools,

In 1991 David Allen Stokes wrote, “The use of natural language to prescribe complex, dynamic systems has at least three severe problems: ambiguity, inaccuracy and inconsistency.” I have never seen a specification document that did not suffer from at least 2 of the 3 issues related by Mr. Stokes 16 years ago in his article on Requirements Analysis.