01/22 Salute to Dave Winer: 10 Year Anniversary of Scripting news — Check out this post from Scripting News It’s Dave Winer’s 10th Anniversary writing Scripting News and Blogging. Hats off Dave!

01/22 Dreaming in code — I heard about this book, “Dreaming in Code”… it looks really interesting but kind of depressing to read which is why I didn’t run out to buy it. Building software is just really really hard and for some reason no matter how smart and experienced we are, projects st...

01/20 Funny rant about internet advertising — Check out this post from Saint John the Conqueror: > Much like when your TiVo “suggests” something uncomfortably out-of-character, like The View when your queue is filled with nothing but The Shield and The Sopranos, their bullseyes can leave you both uneasy and confused. Once, the spread of ads to the side of my screen contained nothing but links to drug rehab centers and alcoholism message boards. Trying to tell me something, Google Ads? Nice try, Falwell, but I don’t need the morality police wagging their fingers at me. (from: Interlude: Internet Ads)

01/20 Really interesting interview with Jonathan Schwartz — Who is he? The CEO of Sun Microsystems. Check out the video: http://www.podtech.net/player/podtech-player.swf?bc=3F34K2L1 (from Jonathan’s own blog)

01/19 Link softly, but carry a big stick :) — Some people have such juice (i.e traffic) to their blog that they when they sneeze, the blogsphere gets a cold. In this post from Scobleizer – Tech Geek Blogger: Scoble uses his clout to try and either force or ...

01/19 Boston PHP meeting coming up — A quick reminder of the upcoming BostonPHP meeting: BostonPHP will host a panel discussion on Venture Capital and Open Source Software with Michael Skok of North Bridge Venture, Larry Bohn of General Catalyst Venture and David Beisel of Masthead Venture. Sounds interesting. Follow the link for more details!

01/17 MyBlogLog Widget experiment… — How do you like this:

01/16 Really cool new site: MyPunchBowl — This new site looks quite cool. It’s a friendlier alternative to eVite, less ad heavy and more fun. They just launched today! Check out this post from MyPunchblog: > TechCrunch has the st...

01/15 “I�_Tm going to wait for the iPhone Shuffle. You just clip it to your ear and call people at random.” — Check out this post from John Nack on Adobe: > "[…]From Victor Allen at Juxt Interactive: "I’m going to wait for the iPhone Shuffle. You just clip it to your ear and call people at random."  Hah![…]" (from: iPhone quip o’ the day, plus more from Macworld)

01/15 New Dawn — Take a look at wis.dm, which is a new site that I’ve been involved with, and recently started doing some pretty cool posting on their own team blog. Check out this post from the wis.dm team blog: > […]I can´t im...

01/15 Read this and guess where it’s from…. Is the Matrix upon us? — ** [3:56 pm PST] In an effort to improve the performance of teleports across the grid, we are going to rebalance our bandwidth to some simulators in our co-location facilities. This will entail taking 164 regions off line for 30 minutes and bringing them back up on a new circuit. We will start this process at 4:00 pm PST so we should be complete with this operation by about 4:30 pm PST. (from**: Update on Search and TP issues)

01/15 Scott Adams writres about Spasmodic Dysphonia… — If you’veheard of Dilbert, then you may have heard about the author Scott Adams. And of course everyone has heard of Dilbert. His blog is almost always funny and sometimes really interesting to the point of touching. In a recent post, Scott Adams reveals that he suffers from something I neve...

01/13 Grey Gardens, on broadway — Here’s a show with a plot that is quite unusual, set as a musical, on  Broadway. I enjoyed it immensely — recommended! Christine Ebersole is the lead, she briefly was a regular on Saturday Night Live (early eighties, for a couple of years) – not that I remember her from then although from the un-made-up photo on the web site, I kind of recognize her. Read more about it on wikipedia (where else?) p.s. The whole web site is made in flash and as a result I can’t link to any of the inner pages. Not smart!

01/12 iPhone Lacks Conversational Aspects — Check out this post from Opus Research: > iPhone may be a tour-de-force for the touchscreen, but it’s inexplicably odd to introduce a new smartphone with so few speech-based...

01/11 Another good article about choosing passwords — I am getting more and more paranoid about this. Lately I have started to use an application called 1Passwd (which also includes a FireFox plug in.) Anyway. check out this post from [Schneier on Security](http://www.schneier....

01/10 Do you really really really want an iPhone? — Check out this post from Lifehacker: > So you want an iPhone when it ships in June (who doesn’t?), but you’re locked into a contract with your current provider. Try Celltrade, a service that helps you transfer your contract responsibility to someone else and effectively walk away without paying a hefty penalty. (from: Ditch your phone contract with Celltrade)

01/09 Drama in Blog Time. — A very interesting commentary on the phenomenon of blogging. Is what we write ‘of little consequence’? Does the fact that we post again the next day say that we ourselves feel that way? Check out this post from [What Will You See Nex...

01/09 It’s official global “bow-down-and-genuflect-while-facing-cupertino” day — I say it’s the Newton of the 21st century. I love my mac as much as the next guy, but mac fanatics become insufferable at a certain point. Bah, humbug.

01/07 The best twenty Mac apps you’ve never heard of — Some good mac applications referenced in this post . I particularly like Service Scrubber (never could really find a use for that Service menu, sorry!) and CocoaMySql which looks like a very nicely done graphical UI for MySql databases. Check out this post from Lifehacker: The best twenty Mac apps you’ve never heard of

01/06 A cautionary utility computing tale – or the dark side of Mashups — Check out this post from Between the Lines: > [snip…] “Yesterday Amazon’s S3 service suffered an outage that lasted more than long enough to miss the company’s self-imposed goal of 99.99% availability, at least fo...