Month: September 2003

The Mirra. A new network hard drive from a startup called Ispiri. The Mirra, as it's called, connects to your home network and can be set to automatically backup and synchronize files from all the computers in the house so that if there's a crash, you'll always have your data. The Mirra can also be… Continue reading The Mirra

Four Legal Land Mines for CIOs. Security, data retention, privacy and software license violations. Here's an article that handles the legal landmines for CIOs in a practical and understandable way. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Dreamweaver MX Dreams. Man! I downloaded the trial of Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 and it's freakin' cool as hell. You can design with XHTML and CSS standards, incorporate Fireworks graphics, use it with JSP and hundred bullet items more. It's a *fantastic* application. I'm feeling the need for a redesign. Both on this site and… Continue reading Dreamweaver MX Dreams

eBay – no way. eBay to Feds: come and get what you want. 'Our Privacy Policy has been enhanced to remove your Privacy' [The Register] I've purchased from eBay once.  Ultimately it wasn't a terribly satisfying experience and I haven't been back.  Reading this means that I will never go back.  I'm not looking for… Continue reading eBay – no way

Microsoft Monitor's Joe Wilcox: Why Microsoft is all about the Web. Real interesting article. Especially the last paragraph where he says that our next dilemma will be content. Couldn't agree more! Longhorn has a ton of innovations for developers to build content production and delivery features into their apps. See ya at the PDC …… Continue reading Why Microsoft is all about the Web

Sunday essay: Why Microsoft won't beat Six Apart. I have been asked by several teams and people here at Microsoft about weblogging and what I'd like to see in a weblogging tool or service. I can't give away too much details, cause that would help our competitors. But, if I were a Microsoft competitor (like… Continue reading Six Apart

How to get Movable Type to do faceted classification. [librarian.net]

MovingAwayFromXslt. All of this site is written in simple XML documents and transformed to HTML. I find this works really well, and means I never have to worry about dealing with HTML formats. (Not that fancy layout is my style, as you can tell.) I've even written a whole book that way. For most of… Continue reading MovingAwayFromXslt

Ha'aretz – Big Brother is watching you – and documenting. eBay, ever anxious to up profits, bends over backward to provide data to law enforcement officials “I don't know another Web site that has a privacy policy as flexible as eBay's,” says Joseph Sullivan. A little bit later, Sullivan explains what he means by the… Continue reading Big Brother is watching you – and documenting