GR Morgan

Access: New Tools

There is rarity, certainly. And encryption and access control. But nothing so esoteric that it cannot be accessed. All the grimoires are in print, and corporate email is a hack away. We need not mourn the burning of the library of Alexandria because we have far surpassed it and, while ephemeral in some ways, the […]

Gestures Above the Fold

Back when wombats roamed the earth web pages were lengthy. Content flowed freely from top to abyssal bottom, tremendous grey trunks of text broken but rarely by an image or block. This was when “hypertext” was still the paradigm, when every term and notion merited a bit of blue underline guiding the patient reader to […]

Face It, I’m Not That Into You

The ‘net, as Douglas Adams observed of the universe in general, is really, really big. It’s full of words and images that represent ideas. And the simple fact is that, for the most part, there are only so many ideas to go around at any given moment. Your ideas are probably not unique. In fact, […]

Convince Me

So the inevitable conversation has finally arrived in my household, initiated by an innocent question by email: I think we should get android phones. Our phones are useless for anything other than calls, and everyone who has smartphones LOVES them. It really makes me wonder what we’re missing. Ever the late adopter, I have to […]