I long ago decided I will never go to meetings again because I think face to face meetings are the biggest waste of time you can ever have. I think most people who work at offices must share my opinion on meetings. Nothing ever gets done. When things get done, you usually have someone come into your office to talk about it. But a lot of the time the real work gets done by people sitting, especially in programming, alone in front of their computers doing what they do best.

Linus Torvalds
CNN World Business Article on Open Source
2006-05-19

Friday photo of the week…

At this point most of us have seen and used touch screens in our lives. The most common touch screen in the world today is probably the touchpad on every laptop. These ubiquitous input devices have always felt a bit foreign and difficult to use. These devices might seem more intuitive to us if we all had only one phalange at the ends of our limbs but if that were the case I don’t think we would live in a base-ten world.

I just recently ran across some video on multi-touch interaction and I thought it was really impressive. It is easy to see the potential in these kind of interfaces.