12/14 How Seinfeld as shaped popular culture — In this morning’s Blog reading, I saw two references to Seinfeld episodes, in each case the reference was just thrown into a headline without further comment. Shows how Seinfeld has shaped how we think and speak! - “No WinFS For You”referering to the totally famous Soup Nazi episode. “A Festivus for the rest of us”,from the little less well known Festivus episode.

12/12 I’m in good company — A week or so ago I posted an amusing picture, supposedly from Popular Mechanics. Well it was quickly debunked as a hoax. This morning, this, showing that I am in good company!

12/08 BlogBridge interview — Yesterday I was interviewed about BlogBridge by ClientJava.com, a very useful Web site for us Java desktop developers. Check it out.. In the comment section I was asked to elaborate on my provocative statements about Java Web Start. Here’s what I said.

12/08 [GEEK] Java Web Start — You might think it’s a bad idea for me to complain about Java Web Start. Well the truth is that I really like it and so am really frustrated by it’s failures. In my own small way I am hoping to wake up someone at Sun to see the importance of this little bit of technology to their grand Java strategy...

12/07 What’s the world coming to? — Someone just pointed me to this item on Mike Zellers blog, under the title, “best explanation of election i can think of….” Just having taken a short Photoshop course and wanting to test my newly found chops, here’s a little something I cooked up: Disclaimer: I don’t know Mike Zellers and his photograph is most likely totally legitimate. Not that my fake would fool anyone.

12/05 Amusing — There’s an amusing new blog I came across: “Gapingvoid”,by Hugh Macleod. He’s a cartoonist, and his postings often have a quickly sketched amusing drawing. I caught today’s postingwith this quote on it: ‘ “I can’t take this shit anymore!” He said, mistakenly’ * Amusing*. From “Waiting for Godot”: ESTRAGON: I can’t go on like this. VLADIMIR: That’s what you think. More amusing.**

12/03 Is this a good idea? — I never was a fan of Tommy Thomson – what a name! I am no expert on terrorism, but it seems to me that saying this in his goodbye speechcan’t be a very good idea: > “For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply because it is so easy to do,” Thompson said as announced his departure before department employees. “We are importing a lot of food from the Middle East, and it would be easy to tamper with that.” For the life of me, I can’t understand why he’d let himself be quoting saying that!

12/02 Why Improv didn’t succeed, Part Deux — Seems like a dredged up some “old” (you know who you are) Improv fans with my earlier posting, so I thought an additional comment or two might be in order. First off, lest it be misunderstood, in no way do I feel anything but totally proud about Imrpov as a c...

11/30 Predicting the future is hard — * “Scientists at the RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a “home computer” could look like in the year 2004. However the needed technology will not be economically feasible ...

11/29 Adam Bosworth on KISS — Adam Bosworth’s speech Adam Bosworth’s an interesting guy, and very smart, and has been deeply involved in web services and many related technologies for years. He really knows this stuff. And it’s interesting, because one of the key Web Services t...

11/29 Why Improv didn’t succeed — It’s been a while. Which is why my heart beat just a little faster when I read a reference to Improv (not altogether flattering) in the Adam Bossworth pieceI just wrote about, where he said: *** Consider the spreadsheet**. It is a protean, sl...

11/26 A couple of good Blog aggregator commentaries — Here are two interesting bits that look at all the aggregators and have some interesting comments about capabilities and futures. - Waiting for Aggie by Jack Vinson - Winer on right and wrong ways to use RSS [Via Portals and KM]

11/26 What is a Blog, redux — I just came across a good summary on one of our favorite topics from KM Magazine. It was written by Bill Ives of Portals and KM fame: > *“Blogs are both a technology and a way of communica...

11/25 Does this map look familiar? — Have you seen this map before? Yes? Actually it’s the map of states where the Cosi Restaurantchain has stores. I don’t know what it means, but I thought ...

11/22 What is a blog, again? — My answer to the question: “What is a Blog”, which I get asked often, goes something like this: “A blog is a just a web site with articles or notes that get posted there, generally by a single person. There’s nothing especially new or complex about the technology of blogs. What’s new and compel...

11/20 New BlogBridge Alpha — Hey, sorry if you aren’t a BlogBridge user yet, but I just can’t resist some news here. First of all, we’ve released a new Alpha, just today.You can get it here. The way we work it is that if after a week or so of use there are no show st...

11/20 BlogBridge on the radar screen? — This is pretty cool: BlogBridge was picked up by Sun’s monthly ‘Swing Sightings’online column where they periodically highlight cool application that, I guess, are good examples of what can be done with Java on the desktop. Thanks!

11/19 Curacao in Open Source News?! — There’s this little island in the Caribean called Curacao. I happen to know a lot about it because that’s where I was born and grew up. Now I live in the United States, but continue to keep up with what’s going on in there. This is from an [article about an...

11/11 Wikipedia and copyrights — If you haven’t heard about Wikipedia, you should check it out. It’s a grass roots encyclopedia. It has a huge number of articles, contributed in general by anyone who feels like writing an article, presumably because they know something about it. [Here’s the...

11/07 Is BlogBridge a ‘next generation’ Feed Reader? — In response to a query from Andrew Watt and Danny Ayers about what they called next-generation infromation aggregators, I wrote this, and I thought I’d share it here too. Dear Andrew and Danny, Still in early beta, but certainly not secret is BlogBridge, www.blogbridge.com, an app I’ve been working...