One of the problems with starting out in an area you know nothing about is knowing where to start. About a month ago, I was inspired by some of the neuroscience articles to build a platform upon which I can play with a variety of learning algorithms. There are a number of possibilities. Given my [...]
Let that be your last
In Ms Roony’s candy shop looking for something that I hadn’t had before – like many of the six year-olds from the neighborhood in north Philly. That’s when I met her. She was curvacious, so much taller than me and very pretty. The tall woman noticed me looking up at her in wonder – likely [...]
Walking ain’t that easy
I cannot remember a time where I was not interested in how people thought. Or more specifically how their brain’s worked. How do we think. Over the years, I’ve studied cognition as a hobby at a macro level with surveys of topics like – “transactional analysis”. It didn’t take long for me to recognize that [...]
When did you fall in love with Tech?
The day I fell in love with software was exciting and connected me to a vision of the future that I have held deeply since. It was nearly the end of the 6th grade for me, four Commodore Pet personal computers were installed into a room that was previously a closet at my school, Friends [...]
CRASH!!!
Blog crashed when I updated to WordPress 3.01. Have to restore everything.
Why another blog
<originally posted Jan 5, 2010> Just before the holiday break, I pitched an idea in a deck to Emma Williams, Nathalie Irvine and Simon Muzio. The idea was that we have great opportunities to better engage our existing and potential customer base by taking some of the lessons already learned from the open source community [...]
MSDN Home and Hub Beta 1
<Originally Posted on 6/28/2010> In two 2009, I presented a deck to Emma Williams (the head of the EPX organization – responsible for MSDN sites and library) to describe how Microsoft had an opportunity to better connect to its developer community. In that conversation, I talked about how development was becoming less of an ends [...]




