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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.**
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!
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...
Read more →* “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 ...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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]
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...
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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 ...
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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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!
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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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.
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)
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...
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