In the news, indictments were handed down today by the California Attorney General to Patricia Dunn and 4 others at HP. They basically went about getting information illegally. Fraud is the technical term and these are felonies. This is a long boring story of what happens when internal politics are taken to extremes. We’ve got the important links so come read for yourself. Carly, I’m available if you’d lie to break it down for our listeners.
According to SEO Watch, Eric Schmidt is warning politicians that they better start telling the truth. Number one, that’s not possible. Number two, are your fellow Board Members at Apple aware of your remarks Mr. Schmidt? Apparently, the idea is to allows searches in real time during speeches or other events that helps users identify patterns of truth. I’m thinking this is a great idea but I’m also concerned that it might turn out that somehow Al Gore really did invent the Internet and Steve Jobs may have actually invented the GUI.
I promise no politics tomorrow.
Indictments Sought in HP Case : Businessweek
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2006/tc20061004_193271.htm
Former Leader of H.P. Is Indicted : New York Times
Can you tell who’s telling the truth? : Check out these videos
http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=news.multimedia.archive.page&filter=VIDEO
Graphical User Interface Gallery
http://www.guidebookgallery.org/guis
Graphical User Interface : Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface
A History of the GUI : ars technica by Jeremy Reimer
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/gui.ars
Conference Video of the debut of the “Mouse” : circa 1968
http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html
The Raskin Center for Humane Interfaces : Archy Alpha
http://rchi.raskincenter.org