04/03 Do you like meaningless coincidences? — 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)…

04/01 “It was beauty killed the beast” — King Kong in 30 seconds.Funny. Technorati Tags: funny

04/01 “We make it up in volume” — 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 ...

03/30 RSS Alley Geek Dinner II – A great time was had by all! — 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](...

03/30 Amazing(ly unpleasant) story about a car — 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...

03/27 [GEEK] Interesting OS X article — 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

03/26 Open Source: the space between Corporation and Commune? — 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...

03/25 Britannica vs. Wikipedia — 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...

03/23 Cheney watches Fox and Only Fox — 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.

03/23 Office Live: Why am I not surprised? — 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...

03/22 If you love words you’ll love this — 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

03/16 American Idol fans with Tivo — 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...

03/16 When your manager says he doesn’t see you working hard enough — 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

03/16 Don’t you just hate the term Web 2.0? — 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

03/14 Very interesting discussion of an OS X Trojan – how it works and doesn’t — 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

03/12 Web 2.0 Calendars? — 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 ...

03/10 RSS Alley Geek Dinner: March 29th – 6:30pm – Harvard Square? Should be even more fun than the last one! — 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...

03/09 Check out Doc Searls Suitwatch newsletter — 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...

03/06 RSS is not a goal… — glenn has been busy today. A series of very intriguing posts, all made today, a Sunday no less. I can remember when glenn insisted on keeping his Sunday’s clear of anything non-recreational. You should check out his [blog](http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=...

03/06 Mac OS X Hacked? — This is only a little funny because Mac fans (and I am one of them) can be very smug about OS X security, saying things like: “There has been not a single case of a virus on Mac, ever.” Hard to prove or disprove but intuitively it’s kind of hard to believe. So when I saw commentary somewher...