Stay Classy, Google

I was mildly irked that Google let December 7 pass by without any reference to the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that plunged us into World War II, but in and of itself, it...

Great Demos of All Time

Product demonstrations can sometimes be useful in convincing prospective customers that your product is a Good Thing, or in convincing prospective investors that your company represents a substantial...

No One Peer-Reviews Scientific Software

Recent revelations that the peer review system in climatology might have been compromised by the biases of corrupt reviewers miss a much bigger problem. Most climatology papers submitted for peer...

Scientists are Not Software Engineers

The real shocking revelation in the Climategate incident isn’t the emails that show influential scientist possibly engaging in the disruption of the scientific process and possibly even...

No One Peer Reviews Scientific Software

Recent revelations that the peer review system in climatology might have been compromised by the biases of corrupt reviewers misses a much greater problem. Most climatology papers submitted for peer...