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I don’t know how I missed this article, but it sure is an interesting and significant development for one, like me, who was born and grew up in Curacao.
“Under the new structure, the Netherlands Antilles will be dissolved and Curacao and St. Maarten will become separate, autonomous members of the kingdom, according to the agreement signed by the leaders Saturday night in Curacao.” (from Miami Herald)
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Have you noticed how man how many new apps that have appeared of late are available free of charge?
Web 2.0 services like gada.be or flickr or del.icio.us. And more conventional client apps like Firefox? The list is approximately infinite. They come and go at an amazing rate. And they are all free.
Not only are they free, users seem to expect them to be free. I am not sure how this came to be…
Is it a unintended consequence of the open source philosophy? Is it a incorrect reframing of the fact that major and well known services like google and yahoo are (...
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I know all this Sony rootkit/DRM stuff has made me paranoid. I loaded my Sarah McLachlan CD into my Mac (a single CD), and two different CDs appear on my desktop (see the screenshot on the left.)
One apparently is the music aspect of the CD and the other is the computer aspect of the CD. Look inside the former, and you see a bunch of AIFF files. Look inside the latter and you see a folder structure, including two executables!
Probably totally innocuous, right? Wait the CD is from Arista records. Any connection to Sony? Is it loading a rootkit?I dunno. Paranoid.
Tim Bray likes Adium, the Mac OS X inter-network IM client. He says:
“Software of the future will be Open Source, will have a sophisticated and smart user interface, will take responsibility for making sure it’s up to date, and will meet essential human needs. Like Adium.” (from ongoing, Tim Bray’s Blog)
Hmm, couldn’t agree with you more 😉
Om Malik writes that “The Web 2.0 Hit By Outages”, saying:
“Over past 48 hours, there have been reports of Web 2.0 outages. Six Apart, one of the biggest blog service provider is experiencing serious downtime, which has left many a few influential bloggers in a tears of rage. (maybe that’s why it hasn’t made it to Mememorandum and Tailrank as yet?)” (from Om Malik’s Blog)
Om connects this news, correctly, to scalability. Scalability is very very hard, and any site as popular as TypePad is certainly extraordinarily hard to architect and run reliably, Web 2.0 or no.
In f...
Read more →I’d like to create a web page that list all web pages that don’t link to themselves.
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Good for a 1 minute chuckle:
“In my lifetime, I have made nearly 15,000 credit card transactions. I purchase almost everything on plastic. What bugs me about credit card transactions is the signing. Who checks the signature? Nobody checks the signature.” (from The Credit Card Prank)
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Robin Good has some interesting predictions and prognostications.
“If you stop looking for a second at the hundreds of interesting new tools and events happening online, what are the key trends you see? Where among the new emerging online media, should you be looking next when trying to understand where to invest your future energies and money?” (from New Media Predictions 2006: What Will The Web Future Bring?)
Worth reading.
You may not have heard of this, but we are now starting to see quite decent word processing applications implemented directly in the browser, using a technique that has become known as “AJAX” – Asyncrhonous Javascript And XML. As usual there is debate about what AJAX really means, who invented it (Microsoft claims that they had it like 5 years ago – which everyone scoffs at.) Here’s a good article about Ajax and how it’s being used to build word processing applications that run directly in the browser:
“None of these methods, however, are as simple to set up as a standard Web browser, which can quickly access a f...
Read more →Check out these amusing images which I came across on the Advertising/Design Goodness Blog. Yes, they are all fake, but very cool!
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This is kind of cool.
I am playing around with the Last.FM music service.
Among the many things it does, is that It ‘watches’ everything you play with iTunes to figure out your music tastes. And then with that, Last.FMrecommends music that you might like.
What caught my eye is the first use of the famous ‘long tail’ graph as a User Interface element. You can drag the vertical bar right and left to affect whether the recommended music is more in the popular or obscure range of possibilities. Cute!
Check out Liam Breck’s new blog.
“Next, the religion of The Network Is The Computer has indoctrinated the congregation to ignore an obvious issue with connectivity: We depend on PCs only because electricity is ubiquitous and reliable. If the power is out, you’ve usually got acts of god in progress, and little divine inspiration for work.” (from Web 2.5: Always-on-you Web 2.0 Tools)
Welcome, Liam!
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“Personally, I want the data the AttentionRecorder is collecting to be used, but I don’t want to freight porting my feeds from one platform to another with those additional 10000+ rows of data.” (from elliptical…“)
Whileit may make sense to use OPML as a foundation for the format for Attention information, they are not one and the same and should not be inexorably bound.
In the ...
Read more →There’s been a lot of discussion (follow these links for more links) of late about how to extend OPML, including what I wrote about some common aggregation related OPML attributes. From reading the discussions and thinking about it, I am thinking that a course correction might be better. Much of the discussion has been about an Attention namespace for OPML. I totally ...
Read more →Irene goodnight, Irene goodnight
Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene
I’ll see you in my dreams
Last Saturday night I got married
Me and my wife settled down
Now me and my wife are parted
Gonna take another stroll downtown
Sometimes I live in the country
Sometimes I live in the town
Sometimes I get a great notion
To jump in the river and drown
Well I asked your mother for you
She told me you was too young
I wish to the Lord I’d never seen your face
Or heard your lying tongue
Stop your rambling, stop your gambling
Stop staying out late at night
Go home to your wife and your family
Stay home by the fireside bright
I love Irene God knows I do
Love her to the day I die
If Irene turns her back on me
I’ll take morphine and die
(If you know why I posted this then you know why I posted this 🙂
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Hot news for Tivo and iPod Fans. Coming soon to a computer near you!
“TiVo Inc. today is expected to announce a service that allows its digital video recorders to save programs to iPods and PlayStation Portables, further untethering television from time and place.” (from LA Times)
Also covering the same story: Associated Press, New York Times, ...
Read more →Zarqawi probably killed! according to Iraq the Model.
“According to these two sources, Iraqi and US military forces in Mosul think that Zarqawi, al-Qaeda leader in Iraq was possibly killed in a raid on a house where members of al-Qaeda were holding a meeting.” (from Iraq the Model)
And I can remember, not that long ago, that it would offend our sense of propriety or at least political correctness to write “X probably Killed!” We, didn’t do that kind of thing, kill someone on purpose. The world has changed…
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According to Dilbert (or is it Scott Adams) we are approaching the whole question of torture in the wrong way:
“The objective is to think up a form of torture that’s effective but doesn’t sound so bad when the rest of the world finds out you did it. ” (from Dilbert.Blog)
So here’s what he’s thought up:
“It occurred to me recently after having surgery for my deviated septum that lots of Al Qaeda members must need that same procedure. When Amnesty International finds out that we gave free medical care to prisoners, that won’t sou...
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You might have heard of Nicholas Negroponte’s (Wikipedia bio – maybe better than the one he wrote himself!) project to create a so-called hundred dollar laptop. He spoke about it at the recent Pop!Tech conference, and the first prototype was unveiled last night. Andy Carvin got a chance to play with it and prepared this very interesting video documentary about it. Check it out.