Month: January 2004

Dynamic categories.  A while back I stopped assigning the items I post here to categories. It wasn't because I couldn't be bothered to do the categorization. Quite the contrary, I'm really interested in achieving that result, and more than willing to put some effort into it. But, although I'm generally a huge proponent of the… Continue reading Dynamic categories

Marblehead – An Intact Seafaring Town North of Boston.  It's fair to deduce from the cloudtravel page on Newport, Rhode Island that the salty, maritime trading communities of Colonial America are an inspiration to this writer. Nothing quite touches on the basic sense of American entrepeneurship and independence like New England's harbor towns, but few… Continue reading Marblehead – An Intact Seafaring Town North of Boston

The Broadband Home of the Future. With almost 23 million households sporting high-speed, always-on Internet connections, the broadband home of the future makes every room the center of the networked world. By Chris Anderson from Wired magazine. [Wired News]

My 2004 Legal Technology Trends Article Is Out. My annual article on legal technology trends is now available. It's called “2004 Legal Technology Trends: Do We Stand on the Threshold of the Next Legal Killer App?” and, as usual, it is designed to make you think in some different ways. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Are Sporting Events Copyrightable?. UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh has a great post about the recently reported settlement reached by the Cubs baseball team and the owners of the buildings behind Wrigley Field. The owners of the buildings have been charging people to view the Cubs games from the rooftops. The Cubs owners felt that… Continue reading Are Sporting Events Copyrightable?

Bush Calls for a Return to Space Exploration. President Bush revived a vision put forth by his father: returning to the Moon and eventually sending astronauts on to Mars. By David Stout. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Ditto. Snopes Gets RSS Feed “Tell one, tell all, the invaluable Snopes.com has finally gotten an RSS feed! Snopes is required reading for people on the Internet. If it sounds too good to be true, if it's a little too conveniently in favor (or against) your favorite ideological position, or if it's a little too… Continue reading Ditto

Internet Explorer team lunch. So, Dean, the guy who runs the Internet Explorer team, invited me out to lunch today. It's not every day that you get invited out to lunch by the guy who runs the team that makes software that hundreds of millions of people use. What did I learn? First. There +IS+… Continue reading Internet Explorer team lunch

Sifry vs MySQL. While I was reading Jeremy Zawodny's reminder post on the Geek Dinner, I saw a link to David Sifry's post Zen and the Art of Bugfixing from March of last year.  Tempted by the title, I followed the link and found an enjoyable post on David's bout with MySQL.  I use Technorati at least… Continue reading Sifry vs MySQL

Birthday wish list. Every year I wait till my brithday to make wishes and predictions.  Here we go. 1. That the PeopleAggregator get back up and running – so everyone can enjoy what Eric Sigler has been up to.  FOAF is definitely the format for interchange of digital IDs and beating on FOAF, pushing the… Continue reading Birthday wish list