Month: June 2003

Pick a Language, Any Language. Researchers in computational linguistics are building a translation engine that can be retooled quickly to translate any language into English. It's part of a DARPA challenge to develop translation services that can adapt at a moment's notice, whenever foreign policy demands. By Katie Dean. [Wired News]

Impeaching Bush. I knew it would only be a matter of time before people starting talking about impeaching Bush over lying to the world about the reasons for the war in Iraq. The comparison to the Watergate scandal is very real, only if it does turn out that Bush was lying there's more at stake that… Continue reading Impeaching Bush

Winning the browser peace. Mozilla has emerged from its long nuclear winter to become a pillar of the Linux desktop. Alpha geeks everywhere (including Sun and Microsoft) are running Safari on their PowerBooks. But here's the reality check you knew was coming: cross-browser and cross-OS compatibility remains nearly as elusive as ever. I won't bore… Continue reading Winning the browser peace

Good Experience: Spam is not a problem. My contention is that more technology, or more laws, may solve the problem in the end, but for now it's up to each individual user to make a small investment of time and effort to manage their e-mail on their own. [Tomalak's Realm]

Six Apart builds a semantic blogging tool.  Web Standards. One of the ideas we've quietly promoted for a few years is that web standards aren't just an esoteric technical initiative, but can be part of a smart way of doing business on the Internet. To that end, we wanted to give a little technical information… Continue reading Six Apart builds a semantic blogging tool

FCC gets one right for a change. Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things Federal court approves cellular number portabilityHallelujah. Today, a federal court rejected an appeal from wireless companies and ruled that consumers should have the right to retain their old phone numbers when switching carriers. Consumer advocates say the inability to retain numbers… Continue reading FCC gets one right for a change

Supercharge your browser – follow-up. A number of people (Sabrina Pacifici, Jerry Lawson, Larry Staton, to name a few) linked to my article in this month's LPM about how to add functionality to your browser. Larry quite rightly pointed out that it's focused on IE for Windows. As a result of Larry's post, not to… Continue reading Supercharge your browser – follow-up

Law Practice Today Gets RSS Feed. Fire up your newsreader and add this RSS feed. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Clint Ecker pointed me to Sterling Hughes weblog. A little background. Sterling Hughes is a big-name developer in the PHP industry. He's written a PHP book. So, when he says “ASP.NET technology is better than PHP technology” people tend to stand up and listen.  [The Scobleizer Weblog]

I just can't stop posting, but I just saw more info on Nick Bradbury's “FeedDemon.” This is the most awaited RSS News Aggregator so far. Nick's the guy who did HomeSite for Allaire/Macromedia. He's the guy who did Top Style. His stuff simply rocks. Go read the early reviews.  [The Scobleizer Weblog]