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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.
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 ...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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 ...
Read more →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!
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 ...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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 ...
Read more →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.
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!’ “
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?
I want RSS to disappear. The question was posed, “What do users want from RSS”? I thought long and hard about this and here’s where I come out. Speaking strictly as a user, what I care about are RSS applications. I care about reading, scanning, writing, absorbing, learning from, contributin...
Read more →Some amazing (Mars) panoramas. This is via Boing Boing. If you look at the navigation device in the bottom right, you’ll see that this site actually is an archive of all kinds of cool 360 degree panoramas!
David Isenberg’s WTF Conference: This is from David’s newsletter, SMART Letter: > *…. Here’s the idea — an instant, bottom-up meeting. WTF. Let’s get together face to face. Let’s talk about the end of telephony a...
Read more →Scott Kirsner of the Boston Globe: “Salas has spent the past few months developing BlogBridge, software that allows users to easily keep tabs on multiple weblogs — kind of a “Reader’s D...
Read more →It’s easy to predict the future. Tim Bray has just concluded an interesting series of postings on what he calls TPSM or Technology Predictor Success Matrix. I’ve had a belief for a while that actually it’s easier than...
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