Gavin’s Digital Diner

I learned of the game the hard way. Sometimes it’s called “Follow the Lady” — you probably know it as “Three-card Monte.” It depends on the art of misdirection, distraction and illusion, and just a little sleight of hand. And now it seems, it’s played every night on the evening news. Even “The Daily Show” [...]

[The exciting sequel to "The Cuneiform Code"]

Having established the elements, theories, and principles, what I really wanted was pretty simple. I know what I wanted to keep (element one); I had a place to keep it (element two); and what I thought was a simple way to find it all again (element three).
Element One — [...]

In theory, knowledge management is easy. Then again, in theory, lots of things are easy. In practice, things are never quite as easy as they sound. Nevertheless, lightly armed, I set out to put a few of my theories into practice.
There are three essential theoretical elements to effective knowledge management. I call these “Gavin’s Three [...]

My car doesn’t trust me. My bank thinks I’m stupid. Fact is there are quite a number of things that seem to think I’m royally dense. The sad thing is I’m starting to believe them. The list includes the dipsy-dumpster down the road, my car, Amazon.com, and the American [...]

The NTEN NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference) has come and gone. This year’s was in D.C. As was true for the two previous NTC’s, there were surprises all around for me; all around. If you work bending technology to serve the greater good, and you missed it; well, shame, shame, shame. For me, as usual, I [...]

I’m reminded of the Dormouse’s advice to Alice when I start to talk about philosophy.
… "you know you say things are much of a muchness," said the Dormouse, — "did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?" "Really, now you ask me," said Alice, very much confused, "I don’t [...]

Carolus von Linnaeus (1707 – 1778) is credited with introducing binomial nomenclature and hierarchical classification as an organized way of naming and describing organisms and their relationships to one another. Linnaeus, by the way, is known as the father of the modern taxonomy. Taxonomy is typically considered the science of classification.
Binomial nomenclature refers to [...]