Author Archives: Brian

About Brian

Engineer. Aviator. Educator. Scientist.

Introspective Web Stats

Posted on February 4, 2006 by Brian

In the month of February, a friend upgraded my ability to have a web presence. Most interesting has been the multi-dimensional statistics of visitors to my web pages. What surprised me so far is something that should not have surprised … Continue reading →

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Search vs. Content Web Page Value

Posted on January 22, 2006 by Brian

Well, really they’re all subject to inflation. Continue reading →

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Let (Make) the Customer Do It ?

Posted on January 14, 2006 by Brian

Major Range Test Facility Bases (MRTFBs) are government owned entitities that do military testing. The core of their work force is military, civilian employees, and support contractors. Their customers are acquisition program program offices, and defense (provider) contractors such as … Continue reading →

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Business Reasons for Open Source

Posted on January 13, 2006 by Brian

I read John Marks’ comments on onlamp (pointer by slashdot today) about Open Source efforts. He claims it’s not so much a community as a reasonable business choice. When taking stock of vertical software markets, I notice a decided lack … Continue reading →

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After Seeing the Bad, Please Show Me the Good

Posted on January 5, 2006 by Brian

I’ve seen the critique of the PTO growing from multiple directions, most recently on Slashdot. What bothers me is that it’s all too easy to find the bad patents we can all laugh at. If we need non-obvious, and non-trivial, … Continue reading →

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