February 2004

What’s funny about Office 2003?

What’s funny about Office 2003? Look at the extremely cool Office 2003 Tool to the right. Well, no I don’t really know all that it does, but note the example under the “Search For:” Who said Microsoft couldn’t laugh at itself?

Echo Chamber, redux: Are we

Echo Chamber, redux: Are we wasting our valuable brain cells duplicating each other’s work? There was an excellent and thought provoking presentation by Dave Sifry of Technorati fame at the ETech Forum. I wish I was there. Well, here are four (4) different first hand reports of...

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IMHO: I started and stopped

IMHO: I started and stopped writing this two days ago, mostly because I didn’t feel like I knew any of the people or issues involved well enough to have the right to a meaningful opinion, not to mention that I would be seens as sucking up (people are so quick to judge – but what the ...

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Stern on Jackson

Stern on Jackson: What total sillyness, all the outrage over Janet Jackson’s bared breast during the superbowl halftime. If it wasn’t for TIVO I wouldn’t have been sure even of what I saw. I think the whole event lasted all of 1 second. Howard Stern points out the sillyness: The government is starting an investigation about Janet Jackson’s breast reveal, but can’t get it together to investigate Cheney and Haliburton. Ridiculous! Jon Stewart made more or less the same point.

Orkut Revisited: I had been

Orkut Revisited: I had been wondering whether my negative vibes about Orkut was because I was the only person on the planet apparently that had not received an invitation. Well that’s all changed. And you know what? I still feel the same way. And apparentl...

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I’m not *that* geeky: I

I’m not that geeky: I am totally fascinated and entralled with what’s going on on Mars right now. I’ve followed all sorts of sources and recently came across this blog by Susan Kitchens who has very detailed posts about what’s going on. I don’t know who she...

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January 2004

Sun still doesn’t get it!

Sun still doesn’t get it! Ouch this hurts. The UI below is what the vaunted Sun provides to Windows users as their standard “Java Web Start” Experience — the latest release of Java no less – fresh off the presses. This is what poor first time users are expected to look at when they are inst...

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BlogBridge update: Just a quick

BlogBridge update: Just a quick note about what’s up with BlogBridge. My time has been severely drained by a new consulting project, so progress has slowed down more than I would like. The last while I was knee-deep in installation, deployment, upgrade facilities. I ...

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Orkut’s back up: “I’m up

Orkut’s back up: “I’m up to 193 friends – and counting.” Continuing the amusing fascination with what’s apparently a buggy new service duplicating several other existing services. Are we allowing software to help us with our self-realization? Wild!

The two Howards: Dean and

The two Howards: Dean and Stern. Everyone is wringing their hands about the way Howard Dean acted out on the night of the Iowa Caucuses. I heard well known pundits talk about ‘the defining moment of Dean’s campaign.’ What a bunch of nonsense. This was a non-event, a crazy moment at t...

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Microsoft Money 2004. Disappointing. I

Microsoft Money 2004. Disappointing. I started preparing my taxes and so I thought I might upgrade my Microsoft Money to the 2004 from 2003. I am a fairly comprehensive user of Microsoft Money, and so every year I do this, and frankly almost every year I am disappointed. **There are almost no ...

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