Inside the Hidden World of Legacy IT Systems
Inside the Hidden World of Legacy IT SystemsHow and why we spend trillions to keep old software going By Robert N. Charette IEEE Spectrum
Thinking about
AFTER THE “FLU”
An interesting editorial from the Fresno Republican, reprinted in the Calistoga California “Weekly Calistogian” of 14 February, 1919. It strikes me as interesting in both the thought given to what they expected after the epidemic but the need for social reform to support these expectation. – JS The Weekly Calistogian 14 February 1919 AFTER THE … [Read more…]
DR. POTTER WARNS PUBLIC
From the Morning Press, 24 August 1918, just before the Spanish influenza epidemic began to rage on the west coast of America: DR. POTTER WARNS PUBLIC AGAINST SPAIN’S INFLUENZA That Spanish influenza, a scourge which has attacked the great armies Europe, is bound to make its presence felt in the United States, was a prediction of … [Read more…]
Post-COVID-19 Sequelae
Post-COVID-19 sequelae Date: Fri 31 Jul 2020 13:30 EDT Source: Science [abridged, edited] [se·que·la /sēˈkwelə/ noun Medicine plural a condition which is the consequence of a previous disease or injury. “the long-term sequelae of infection”] [AA’s] neuroscience lab reopened last month [June 2020] without her. Life for the 38-year-old is a pale shadow of what … [Read more…]
I’m not so timid about germs
Substitute COVID-19 for INFLUENZA in the article below, and you sum up how epidemics impact people. – JS. Riverside Daily Press 18 February 1919 SIDE TALKS BY RUTH CAMERON Rocking the Boat “Well, I’m thankful to say, I’m not so timid about germs. My carcass isn’t quite so valuable to me as all that,” said … [Read more…]
REDONDO BEACH USES TRAVELING SCHOOLS – 1918
Calexico Chronicle 23 December 1918 REDONDO BEACH USES TRAVELING SCHOOLS Redondo Beach, Dec. 23.—Grammar schools have been closed here during the influenza epidemic, but the work of education goes on. Equipped with a small portable blackboard and necessary text books and records, each teacher calls upon each pupil enrolled in her classes and hears recitations … [Read more…]
Zohar Studios
Two articles have popped up about an exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco called “Predicting the Past: Zohar Studios, The Lost Years.” The first link was from the intrepid New York Review of Books Daily blog; Zohar Studios’: An Invented Artist’s Lively Inventions by J. Hoberman and the second link is from … [Read more…]
Billionaire Chuck Feeney gives away his fortune
In the Guardian, an essay on the goal of Chuck Feeney, who gave away around $8 billion during his life. Still with us at 89, Mr. Feeney lives in San Francisco in a rented apartment. Billionaire Chuck Feeney achieves goal of giving away his fortune Rupert Neate Sat 19 Sep 2020 Irish-American mogul’s philanthropic foundation … [Read more…]
Hanford Has a Radioactive Capsule Problem
Over at IEEE Spectrum, another in-depth article on problems at the Hanford Site in Eastern Washington state. This essay deals with problems found in the “nearly 2,000 capsules of highly radioactive cesium and strontium” kept in a facility known as “Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility (WESF).” “Built in 1973, the facility is well beyond its … [Read more…]
Robert Stemmler Wine
In the 1990’s, we got to know this winery up county off Dry Creek. Bob Stemmler produced Bellissimo, a marvelous rich, red claret. The winery is gone, but the fond memories of sending a bottle back to the kitchen at Chez Panisse lives on. We’d buy it by the case, it was a “reasonably” priced … [Read more…]