January 31, 2002
by deCadmus
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All through the night the trees in the woody dell behind our home shuddered, snapped, and crashed in crystal cascades, while ice-caked power transformers arced blue-green lightning into the sky. Today more than 250,000 Kansas City homes are without power… … Continue reading
January 31, 2002
by deCadmus
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Cupping the Challenge or, you can tell the happy cupper by the coffee grounds in his teeth…. A thoughtful and highly reflective round of cupping coffees does not begin with a triple round of double espressos. Of course, we weren’t … Continue reading
January 30, 2002
by deCadmus
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Donny brought along his Solis Maestro coffee grinder for our cupping session yesterday. After pressing it into use as our espresso grinder and using it to grind for our open cup session, we’d pretty well explored its very capable range … Continue reading
January 29, 2002
by deCadmus
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Pundits have for some time suggested a least common denominator approach to the convergence of mobile phones, PDAs and increasingly feature-laden devices. “If you can talk into it,” they say, “it’s a phone.” A new generation of products, from Handspring’s … Continue reading
January 28, 2002
by deCadmus
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Donny Brown and I joined up some eight years ago — both of us computer geeks — as successful associates in a consulting company that not coincidentally belly-flopped within a few fiscal heart-beats of our more or less concurrent departures, … Continue reading
January 25, 2002
by deCadmus
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Proctor & Gamble [corporate owner of Folgers and Millstone coffees] makes a $1.5 million investment in coffee karma with a donation to TechnoServe — an American non-profit that provides aid to rural communities in the developing world — while neatly … Continue reading
January 25, 2002
by deCadmus
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It’s Friday and you’ve got time to kill… Rev up your RealPlayer and listen to Baxter Black — NPR’s cowboy poet philosopher — as he takes a swing at your favorite synthesized beverage… amer-mochaccino-bestos flavored coffee. Thanks, Fortune. [RealAudio stream].
January 24, 2002
by deCadmus
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Peter Morville offers a thoughtful perspective on the battling twins of control and creativity that shape information architecture. He lists a number of complex adaptive systems: examples that include collaborative filtering, reputation management, and cooperative cataloging. I looked to similar … Continue reading