http://donald-ferguson.net/blog Dulcius Ex Asperis Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:11:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have also started an official CA blog. http://donald-ferguson.net/blog/?p=158 Someone suggested that I produce a list of "The Best Sayings by Don." I am going to keep the list at one of the pages on this site (here). I will update periodically. http://donald-ferguson.net/blog/?p=157 I had breakfast with someone the other day, and the conversation reminded me of my 1st job in the computer field. I worked for a summer (1981) at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. This was one of the high points of the Cold War. Lincoln Labs worked on all kinds of secret ... http://donald-ferguson.net/blog/?p=155 A couple of people mentioned that Scott Adams is a genius for the insight in the strip below (2010-2-12). I have a different perspective (BTW, this is a joke. I really like working with India). God’s cost would not have been reduced. God will still need two angels/demons to supervise the ... http://donald-ferguson.net/blog/?p=154 I finally broke down and got an iPhone. The device is very cool. The only downside is that the thing eats the battery. I was having dinner with my kids the 1st night I had the phone. I brought the phone to the table and was playing with it during dinner. ... http://donald-ferguson.net/blog/?p=153 I have been receiving emails on a thread on "Microsoft and Innovation." I finally got around the reading one of the emails. An op-ed piece in the NY Times by Dick Brass, a former Microsoft employee, severely criticizes Microsoft's lack of innovation. I politely disagree. Microsoft also published a rebuttal. I ... http://donald-ferguson.net/blog/?p=152 ChannelWeb (CRN) named me one of 25 Thought Leaders for 2010. Four of the thought leaders are former IBMer, or five if you include Ray Ozzie. I do not know if this is good news for IBM or bad news. Clearly IBM is producing some technical leaders, excepting me. http://donald-ferguson.net/blog/?p=151 IBM took my blog off of developerWorks, or so they thought. There were some complaints outside of IBM about "erased from history." The history of WebSphere book was a more egregious example. Turns out IBM needs a better erase. I just blog at https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/donferguson/?lang=en. http://donald-ferguson.net/blog/?p=150 I finally managed to align my finder scope and telescope. The process is amazingly hard. The telescope's field of view is very, very small. Figuring out what I am seeing is not easy because I see a leaf, not the tree for example. Adjusting the finder scope is very annoying. ... http://donald-ferguson.net/blog/?p=149 In a previous post I discussed finding M1 -- the Crab Nebula. The nebula was very faint and hard to see. I tried taking some photos through the GRAS telescopes but the results are not much better. Unedited image (Large): Edited Image (Large) http://donald-ferguson.net/blog/?p=148