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I was scanning Jon Udell’s blog and came across the following: “Plog is a brand-new word that’s even uglier (if possible) than blog. But the words don’t matter*. What’s striking is how the art of storytelling — our instinctive human way of mak...
Read more →If you are doing Java programming, check out Hardcore Java by Robert Simmon Jr. It’s a idiosyncratic tour through many very interesting advanced Java topics. My wife who sees another Java book sprout on my table every week wonders why it’s taking me so long to learn this “Java” thing 🙂
Various peopleare saying that Opera, with it’s new release, is the first email client to integrate RSS access. Not true. Oddpost, a very nice and unique web-based mail client has had this for a while. I recommend it.
I’ve seen some discussionon the issues related to changingblog infrastructure from one system to another. In my case, I moved from Radio to Movable Type. My experience is that is was pretty easy to move the data (no data lock in) but the problem was the urls. Even if you take steps to make sure that the root url doesn’t change, the individual post and archive urls will probably change which means that anyone linked to your blog before will stay linked to your old blog and so you will experience a disruption in your traffic.
As you know we are developing BlogBridge, “a new kind of blog reader.” As you may know, BlogBridge is open source(see https://sourceforge.net/projects/blogbridge/.) With all our recent progress, I feel that pretty **soon B...
Read more →It’s been quiet but we’ve been busy. We are getting ready to put up a major new revision of BlogBridgewith goodies such as drag and drop of Channels, Collapse/Expand groups of articles, based on age, Next Unread processing, a bunch of new User Preferences. Also we are doing a bit of a reorganization of this site. The ‘Tasks’ page has become a nuisance to maintain and really not that useful, so it’s gone. And the Specs page is being totally revised to be more useful. Expect lots of additions to the Specs page as we move into another phase of development. Keep those cards and letters coming in!
Scott Kirsner turned me on to Vaja Leather Products. This outfit supplies what look to be the coolest possible leather cases for Treo 600s, other PDAs, Digital Cameras, Cellphones or what not, that you’d like to attach to your hip. Very cool for the jet-set. Take a look.
It’s been quiet but we’ve been busy. We are getting ready to put up a major new revision of BlogBridge with goodies such as drag and drop of Channels, Collapse/Expand groups of articles, based on age, Next Unread processing, a bunch of new User Preferences. Also we are doing a bit of a reorganization of this site. The ‘Tasks’ page has become a nuisance to maintain and really not that useful, so it’s gone. And the Specs page is being totally revised to be more useful. Expect lots of additions to the Specs page as we move into another phase of development.
Hard to believe what we are hearing these days, isn’t it? The link is to an summary about the Prison scandal, with lots of links to other reputable publications, putting the pieces of the puzzle together.
And reached the same conclusion. I hope we are both right.
Remember when the Berlin wall came down and the Soviet Union ended up breaking up? People talked about the power of decentralizaiton, about how simple faxes were used by individual Soviet citizens to tell the world what was going on and topple the ultimate centralized power? Or the impact of th...
Read more →Here’s a handy bit of esoterica: To force Log4J to report on it’s initialization sequence do this: java -Dlog4j.debug=true (And no, I usually don’t use log4j, I use the Java 1.4 built in logging facility, but some of the libraries I like still use log4j.)
In order to debug a hairy problem, I need to step into some Java system classes (hashmap.java) HashMap.class is to be found in rt.jar, part of the standard Java distribution (1.4.2_04) but it does NOT have debug info compiled in. So what to do? I think I did a pretty exhaustive set of steps but I w...
Read more →As I delve into programming esoterica, in the past I’ve written down little handy items of information that I discover through a lot of work, for possible future reference. 6 months later, the details will have escaped me, and so I have my written notes to refer back to. Well, I thought, why not use...
Read more →Well, not really dark: This is in reference to Shel Isreal’s recent bit about LinkedIn. Shel notes that LinkedInis actually good for recruiting. He cites some examples of folks who assembled a ...
Read more →Good evening sportsfans. There’s a new version (4.5) of iTunes for Windows. All I can see after a quick look-over is a new feature called “Party Shuffle” that appears to create a quasi-random mix, based on a few parameters. Suitable for parties, I guess 🙂
One of my computers has gone totally haywire with spyware, popups popping all over the place, and more. Here’s the new spin, which I hadn’t seen before. When surfing the web, arbitrary words on web pages are turned into links, and when you innocently click them, you are sent off the deep end with a...
Read more →For Howard Stern fans out there, here’s a good article.
I have installed an interesting application – BlogJet. It’s a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” — Pablo Picasso And here’...
Read more →David Coursey writes an interesting bitabout how the competitors to Microft Office (i.e. Star Office, Word Perfect, what not) need to get themselves an Outlook competitor, because that’s the only (or main) reason standing in the way o...
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