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A Different Threat to Net Neutrality
Albert Wenger – Oct 22, 2010
The whole fight about net neutrality is about to take a turn from the abstract to the concrete but in a somewhat unexpected way. It is not ISPs or telcos that are turning out to be the immediate culprits, but [...] Read more
Pages Weigh Too Much
Albert Wenger – Oct 21, 2010
I continue to be amazed how big web pages have grown these days. They are routinely 500+ KB for some trivial amount of actual content. That’s obviously not an issue when I am browsing on a true broadband connection. But [...] Read more
The Changing Income Distribution
Albert Wenger – Oct 20, 2010
This post is part of my Age of Abundance series. As I remarked in the outline for the series, changes in the income distribution are likely to be an important aspect of the transition. The following lays out my hypothesis [...] Read more
(Intentionally) Missing the Point of Online Social
Albert Wenger – Oct 14, 2010
So I haven’t seen “The Social Network” yet and there is a good chance I won’t get around to it at all, as I am crazy busy at the moment (and fighting off a cold). But I have read enough [...] Read more
Age of Abundance Expanded
Albert Wenger – Oct 13, 2010
I got a lot of useful questions and feedback on my Age of Abundance (AoA) post yesterday - thanks! Two important points to address right away are what I mean by Abundance (and why I chose that term) and what [...] Read more
Age of Abundance
Albert Wenger – Oct 12, 2010
While I was traveling last week, I had an epiphany: there is a common theme to pretty much everything I have been writing about here on Continuations! The theme is the transition from the Industrial Age towards what I will [...] Read more
Have Been Waiting For This: UMA Comes to Android Courtesy of T-Mobile
Albert Wenger – Oct 8, 2010
So I have still not switched permanently to an Android phone. The main remaining reason has been that I simply have no cell coverage in my house. With my T-Mobile Blackberry I have been able to roam seamlessly onto my [...] Read more
Learning New Things (Git Edition)
Albert Wenger – Oct 7, 2010
It is very easy to settle into a set of development tools and routines and get so comfortable in them that one is loathe to try out something new. One proceeds to justify this behavior (to oneself and others) by [...] Read more
With Great Power Comes … Great Danger (Command Line)
Albert Wenger – Oct 6, 2010
I am a huge fan of the command line. Sure, the learning curve is steeper than for a GUI, but once you know what you are doing, you can be blindingly fast. Because it is generally assumed that folks who [...] Read more