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There is a lot of stuff going on with OPML these days. OPML stands for Outline Processing Markup Language, invented and evangelized by Dave Winer some number of years ago. Since then though, at least from my observat...
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Apple just shipped 10.4.6, the latest revision to the OS X. This may be old, but I never noticed that the blue Spotlight menu icon in the top right of the screen has a little pulsing dot in the middle of the magnifying glass, presumably to tell me that it was busy indexing stuff, presumably explaining why my computer is running a little hard right now. Is it a new little touch or has it **always been there? ** Technorati Tags: osx
On Wednesday of next week, At two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be: 01:02:03 04/05/06. ** That won’t happen again until 3006 (you may not be around to see it)…
King Kong in 30 seconds.Funny. Technorati Tags: funny
There’s a new meme floating around, “Freemium“, a cute/clever word for a kind of business model. Giving it away free. Say what? You may know that I am associated with a software product which is ...
Read more →Last night’s event was a lot of fun. A ton of energy in the room, people huddling around comparing notes, even doing some demos. The place was nice and loud (good) and packed (also good!) Thanks again to the co-organizers, Bela Labovitch, [Adam Green](...
Read more →My friend Francois posts a horrifying real-life story about him and his Mercedes Benz. It makes a compelling read, kind of like watching a train wreck is compelling. > “My fin...
Read more →Ever wonder how Mac’s OS X program launch and execution works? No? Hmm. Anyway, here’s a fascinating article telling you more than you ever thought you wanted to know! > “As you can see, executing a process in OS X is a complex affair, and I have tried to cover as much as is necessary for a useful debugging session.” (from “How OS X Executes Applications”) 🙂 Technorati Tags: osx
In The Economist, there’s an interesting overview of Open Source, what it is, strengths, weaknesses, and what’s in store for it. It introduces the catchy metaphor (or is it simile) “… occupying the space between a Corporation and...
Read more →I’m a big fan of Wikipedia, and of course traditionally (like anyone) have been an admirer of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Recently the highly respected magazine Nature published an article describing a study in which they compar...
Read more →This is just silly-funny. Here are whatour VP expects to have in Hotel suites (known, aparently, as “downtime suites”) > “And, of course, all the televisions need to be preset to the Fox News Channel (what, you thought he was a Lifetime devotee?).” (from Smoking Gun) Read the whole thing, it’s kinda funny.
Have you heard how Microsoft is shipping Windows Live and Office Live and this-live and that-live? I’ve seen this movie before and I have to say that I am skeptical. A competitor starts getting successful with a line that Microsoft doesn’t own and out comes the “me-too-FUD” b...
Read more →All the words of the english language, ordered by frequency, coupled with some really nifty graphic design and ajaxian coding. Enjoy! This is the work of Jonathan Harris. Here are some of his other projects. Quite cool! Correction: In fact as several readers have said, this site is not Ajax, it’s Flash! Which again proves why everyone’s obsession with Ajax is almost as bad as their our obsession with Web 2.0 Technorati Tags: ajax, graphicdesign
Tivo has been doing more and more cool things with their little box. See, it’s actually a Linux computer, with a 80Gig hard disk and a broadband connection to the internet, plus a big screen TV attached to it. Think of the possibilities 🙂 Latest thing I just...
Read more →Here’s a clever retort that I heard from a colleague today: “When you think I’m working, I’m not working, and when you think I’m not working, I’m working!” 😉 Technorati Tags: management
Actually, I don’t hate it. It’s not clear exactly what it means, but it means something. Is it Ajax, Web services, REST, RSS, OPML, XML? Who knows? But more interesting, check out this amazing list of products that one way or another are connected to Web 2.0. Everything Web 2.0 Technorati Tags: web2.0
Via MetaFilter: “Barbarians are at the gates, testing the locks, again.” As I’ve commented before, Mac OS X users are (appropriately) smug about the absence of viruses on that platform. Some say it’s only a matter of time. Here are the interesting technical details of one recent attempt. Technorati Tags: osx
Mike Arrington waxes poetic about 30 Boxes, an entry in the, apparently, red-hot online calendar space. I’m not sure I get it. It seems to me ...
Read more →Hello sports fans. We are having another super-informal-geeky-but-not-exclusively-geeks geek dinner, this time using the well-known PaB/Free Pattern. Who is we, again? Bela Labovitch, Adam Green and me. We are fortunate that th...
Read more →There are a few really good newsletters that have not moved over to a blog which I read religiously. One of them is Doc Searls‘ Suitwatch. Doc writes a fairly long essay approximately monthly. It’s always interesting and well written. Here’s how his most [rece...
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