11/06 [OOPSLA] Where Wikis come from — I was lucky enough to meet and spend some time with **Ward Cunningham **at OOPSLAthis year. I also heard him present in a big hall. If you are a Wikifan then you know tha...

11/06 Podcasting less important than “IT Conversations” — I was working out, listening an IT Conversationsinterview with Joel Spolsky. It was interesting and passed the time. It’s wonderful that Doug Kaye interviewed [Joel Spolsky](http://ww...

11/06 At least we have the Redsox — Ok, I am adjusting to the new reality of the lost election. The amount of coverage in the blogs I frequent is huge so I won’t add to the noise, except to offer a few graphics that I found interesting.

10/28 Red Sox Moon — In honor of the Red Sox, the moon will turn red tonight. It will start melting into the dark sky around 9.15. Between 10.23 and 11.44, it will be some shade of red, like Curt Schilling’s sock. After that, with the Red Sox hopefully having achieved their mission, the moon will regain its composure and return to light up the sky, just as these players have lightened up our Fall. Take a look: about due South, about 45 degrees up. (from Ben Gomes-Casseres)

10/26 You have an MP3 and I have an IPod — You have an MP3 and I have an IPod. I want to listen to that MP3 while driving, walking, or working out. Anything that will facilitate and make it more convenient for me to achieve that is valuable. End of story. Before anyone coined the term Podcasting, and before there were **enclosure...

10/25 [OOPSLA] Watching the World Series in a mirror — Just got to Vancouver for OOPSLA. Just checked into my hotel room, and am doing email while watching baseball. Because of the way the room is set up, I am able to watch the game through a mirror. You know what’s weird? Runners seem to be running from home to third to second to first. Left field is right field. The world is upside down! Well actually leftside right. Watching baseball through a mirror. **Funny. **

10/21 Best Red Sox Headline — Isn’t it sweet! Did you know you could get a big collection of front pages of newspapers at the Newseum? Here’s by far the funniest I saw: Late update — Additional funny headlines: ** “The Empire Strikes Out!” “Yank This!”**

10/18 Some arcana about how BlogStarz! work — Believe me when I say that this will only be interesting to you if you are curious about the thinking about the Starz rating system that we’ve built into BlogBridge. If you don’t have a burning curiosity, trust me, it will put you to sleep 🙂 The basic idea for the BlogStarz! mechanism is sim...

10/15 Talking points memo: who’s obsessed now? — I’m a huge fan of Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall’s blog. In fact it’s my exhibit #1 for people who ask me for a good blog to read (assuming they are “liberal.” If they are not I point them to Instapundit.) Anyway just a few words about [Josh Marshall’s co...

10/15 Am I cranky today? — Here I go again, picking a out quote from a blogger who I really likeand dissecting it. I don’t know, maybe I am cranky. Robert Scoble, of Microsoft and Scobelizer fame, [reports on a conversation he had with Kim Polese](http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/10/15.html...

10/15 BlogBridge makes top 10 List! — Hey, this is really cool. BlogBridge made a “Top 10 Java Web Start Apps” list. I ran across it on “Cardsharp on Software”, a blog written by Kurt Williams. “7. BlogBridge. Wicked cool RSS Client” That alone led to lots of downloads and hits on the site. And then it got picked up by Java Desktop as a Featured Blog, which led to even more traction. Wicked cool, as they say!

10/13 Why don’t you check your email? — A very interesting piece about how people are beginning to use Instant Messaging instead of email. It’s quite counterintuitive, but it does seem to correlate in one particular college studen...

10/12 Too Many Toolbars! — Everyone wants to give me a toolbar! I’ve successfully fought back Yahoo’s and am a happy user of Google’s Toolbar. Now A9 has a toolbar too. Have you checked out A9? It’s Amazon’s Search Service. What does Amazon want wi...

10/06 BlogBridge Podcasting? — There’s a site called IT Conversations that has a collection of interviews, recorded on mp3s with some very interesting people. Also included are lectures, debates and panels. It is an excellent site, I recommend it. For a while now, I’ve been, manually, do...

10/06 [GEEK] Undrestanding and getting around EDT — No, not Eastern Daylight Time, the Swing Event Dispatch Thread. Duh. If the abbreviation EDT doesn’t send shivers up your spine you’re not really a Java Geek. Or maybe you are an uber-geek. Anyway, I came across this clear and short articleexplaining the big traps and how to avoid them. It is the SPIN project which implements a way-esoteric-PhD-level technique to make it easier to work with the EDT.

10/05 Magic Links — Here’s a really cool idea (via Boing Boing– see their story) – Creating a web site, identical to an existing one, except that certain words have been changed to links. A very powerful idea. [Read the art...

09/30 Find what you care about with BlogBridge — We just got a totally cool new BlogBridge feature working, which actually was suggested by a user a few months ago: keyword highlighting. It’s quite simple: The user supplies a set of keywords they care about (in my case: “Bush Kerry Microsoft eRoom Curacao and Pito”) In turn, whenever blogs a...

09/29 Web Services gone wild — Here’s a cool idea: using the web services of Google and Technorati together to find other, related blogs. Here’s the idea: One of the things I am trying to do with BlogBridgeis to help users discover new blogs that they would be interested in. **Let’s s...

09/29 Why Google is great — I’ve written about this before, I think, but I am once again pleasantly amazed by Google. I momentarily blanked out on the name of the ‘other’ conservative blogger – other than Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) that is. So I asked Google, what sites are related to Instapundit? And here’s what it says. Number 2 on the list: Andrew Sullivan. Yup, right answer! Cool or what?

09/27 Mars Rover tracks seen from space — You know I am a fan of the cool little Mars Rovers. Here’s an interesting little bit from Nasa: “Mars Orbiter Sees Rover Tracks Among Thousands of New Images NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor, starting its third mission extension this week after seven years of orbiting Mars, is using an innovativ...