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OODA loops originated from Colonel John Boyd’s experiences as a jet-fighter pilot in the Korean War. He synthesized his observations about dogfighting with intense studies of history and philosophy to create a fascinating way of thinking about thinking. OODA stands for Observe Orient Decide Act. From what I understand of Colonel Boyd’s ideas, […]
Written by Parker on August 8th, 2006 with no comments.
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This weekend the AOL research team made public a file which contains logs showing the searches performed by approximately half a million users over the course of three months. Article about it here. The AOL engineers claimed that they had anonymized the data so that the users who performed the searches could not be […]
Written by Parker on August 6th, 2006 with no comments.
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Many, if not most, blogs are setup so that visitors can post comments. I’ve decided not to do that on this blog. The reasons for doing this are:
1. I don’t want to have to spend time dealing with comment spam.
2. I read Steve Pavlina’s article about shutting down comments, where he […]
Written by Parker on August 4th, 2006 with no comments.
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After futzing around with the default WordPress theme, trying to get the sidebar to show up on the left-hand side, and trying to work around CSS problems in other themes, I’ve finally found one that is clean and simple, easily customizable and seems built from the ground up to support advertising: Javier Garcia’s MW, Monetizing […]
Written by Parker on August 4th, 2006 with no comments.
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As a Microsoft .NET developer setting up a blog, I’ve used DasBlog and .TEXT (the open source predecessor to Community Server). DasBlog is easy to setup, everything is XML based so there is no database configuration, but it always bothered me that GUIDs were used in permalinks and trackbacks. This made pages get […]
Written by Parker on August 3rd, 2006 with no comments.
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