Monthly Archives: March 2009
Unbiased language: what do you think?
As you know from listening to my podcast, I like to use unbiased language whenever I can. That’s language that is as free from gender assumptions as possible. The APA has explicit guidelines for how to do this. You can … Continue reading
Breakthrough!!! And observations on dictation software.
I have been slogging through editing my pre-first-draft for several weeks now. It’s been hellish. You see, I wrote the first 150 pages of the book using dictation software. The theory was: I can speak extemporaneously and create excellent, well-thought-out, … Continue reading
Stephen Wolfram's "Alpha" isn't a Google killer; they're in different businesses.
My friend Bob Kerns blogged about Stephen Wolfram’s “Alpha” project. The project aims to take on Google by creating a web-retrieval engine that can answer specific factual questions directly. Type in, “how many angels can dance on the head of … Continue reading
What do you do with email you've read?
I save pretty much all my email, and it fills up my hard drive, my backups, and my Gmail account. I rarely go back and read it, though sometimes it *is* a valuable reference source. I’ve been thinking of linking … Continue reading
