Stories by ColinWright

This Is What a Sabbatical at Twitter Looks Like

Watch A Tugboat Drag An Arctic Iceberg To Parched People Half A World Away

Clutter-discoverability trade-off

Optical illusion - shake your head and see a Beatle.

How To Get My Job - Becoming a writer, by Jerry Pournelle

A denotational interpreter for a λ-calculus-based language

Mobile phones: "connected" business people tethered to their devices

Economist's View: "The Mathematics Generation Gap"

FriendDA -- Slightly more than a hearty handshake

Evidence Based Scheduling (2007)

A list of tools for finding or capturing tweets

Give Twitter credit for trying to stand up to the courts – unlike others

"Run," a Verb for Our Frantic Times

South Tyneside Council takes Twitter to court in US

'Duh science': Why scientists spend so much time proving the obvious

Copyright as seen by Spider Robinson: Melancholy Elephants

Puzzle: Count from 1 to 10 in base negative 2.

Software Contracting and Legal Matters

Freedom of information laws are used to harass scientists, says Nobel laureate

Children don't need Brain Gym to spot nonsense