02/11 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...

02/11 The 100-Million-Mile Network – Great article — The 100-Million-Mile Network – Great article about one of my favorite topics, the Mars Rover. There are several really interesting blogs about this project as well, that I’d recommend for the space buffs among you!

02/07 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 ...

02/06 TiVo watchers uneasy after post-Super — TiVo watchers uneasy after post-Super Bowl reports: CNET News.com. Seems that I was not the only one!

02/05 Joho the Blog: The Semantic — Joho the Blog: The Semantic Earth. David Weinberger’s new article for Release 1.0 sounds really worthwhile.

02/04 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.

02/04 Did you know how closely — Did you know how closely you were being watched by your TIVO? A by-product of the Janet Jackson flap, was that Tivo announced through a press release that they registered the biggest blip of from their network at the instant of the **famous ...

02/02 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...

02/01 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...

01/31 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...

01/30 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 ...

01/29 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!

01/27 Getting Your R�sum� Read – — Getting Your R©sum© Read – From Joel Spolsky. Joel writes a good and amusing article with some brain-dead-obvious tips (that apparently aren’t so obvious) about resumes. One of the rants though: > “OK, this one really bugs me. *Learn ...

01/24 What’s up with Orkut? There’s — What’s up with Orkut? There’s this new “online community that connects people through a network of trusted friends” that’s causing quite a bit of comment here and there, in blogs and other newsgroups. After all the badmouthing that I’ve...

01/22 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...

01/19 Channel Dean: “An RSS feed — Channel Dean: “An RSS feed that’s like a clipping service for people interested in US politics.” [Dave Winer and some co-conspiritors](http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/howChannelDe...

01/19 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 ...

01/17 Goody, Goody! Mary, over at — Goody, Goody! Mary, over at LockerGnome notes: “…to look like a Windows application. With JGoodies you can give them what they want, and a whole lot more besides!”. This is in reference to a great UI framework for Java called JGoodies. As it turns out, the app I’ve been working on lately has been using JGoodies. Check it out, it does make a lovely WindowsXP looking UI with Swing actually possible. No small feat.

01/16 Did you hear this one? — Did you hear this one? (via some talkshow.) “President George Bush, trying to lay to rest concerns about our supply of beef: ‘Our beef supply is safe. I tell you, do not be concerned about eating beef. If we see a reduction in the consumption of beef in this country, then, the cows have won!’ “

01/16 Living in 3d? So here — Living in 3d? So here are these really cool 3D Mars Pictures. But my question is, where do I get the specs? I saw these freebie 3D glasses, but who knows if they are the right kind. I will report further if I find out. Faithful readership, please let me know?