SOP

What do you call it when the person knowledgeable on an legacy technology retires, there is not a replacement hired yet, and then an internal customer requests enhancements involving that technology and some other legacy systems?

Oh, yea, and the development environment for that legacy system has gone AWOL? And then your manager's manager very publicly put you in charge of dealing with it?

Oh, yea, business as usual.

Doing and being

"Focus not on doing less or doing more, but on doing what you value." —Gretchen Rubin

And while we're at it, why doesn't doing rhyme with boing?

Virtual Reality as Operating System

Virtual world systems, such as Second Live (SL), Opensimulator (Opensim), and High Fidelity (HiFi), can be considered  as immersive, collaborative operating systems.

This is especially true as they support Turing-equivalent scripting languages, as well as interface design, and distributed asset management and directory systems ranging from basic (SL) to more advanced (HiFi).

It would be an interesting exercise to map common Operating System user operations from Unix-like, Windows, and Mac OS X to immersive equivalents. I'm sure there are lists available of most commonly used command line and GUI operations.

One of my favorite xkcd quotes

"You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off.  There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan.  To find them, look for tiny interesting choices.  And remember that you are always making up the future as you go."

– Randall Munroe, xkcd