September 2004 archives

September 3, 2004 by Patti

My head hurts when it wobbles

I was in a client meeting on Thursday; the topic was “taxonomies” of various sorts and the question arose as the relationship between different taxonomies of users. The answer: “they are orthogonal.” Talk about about term that makes my head hurt. I first heard “orthogonal” when I joined Digital Equipment Corporation; my first project was [...]