Express team blogs. The Express Edition team is even blogging. [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]
Month: June 2004
Do You Feel Safer Now? FBI Computer Network Delays
Do You Feel Safer Now? FBI Computer Network Delays. Have you ever read Barbara Tuchman's March of Folly? It's a book that I want to put on my re-reading list as appropriate for this time, but the idea of revisiting those themes in the environment of today's news is a little scary. Did you see… Continue reading Do You Feel Safer Now? FBI Computer Network Delays
Improving the User Experience Online for Library Users
Improving the User Experience Online for Library Users. I would love to get a grant to have 37signals design an online library catalog. I've been reading their book Defensive Design for the Web: How To Improve Error Messages, Help, Forms, and Other Crisis Points because I'm redesigning our merged web site/extranet/intranet, and while most of… Continue reading Improving the User Experience Online for Library Users
Web site virus attack blunted
News.Com: Web site virus attack blunted. The attack, which had turned some Web sites into points of digital infection was nipped in the bud on Friday, when Internet engineers managed to shut down a Russian server that had been the source of malicious code for the attack. [Tomalak's Realm]
Word History
Word History. Bruce Damer's Personal Histories of the Desktop User Interface, at the DigiBarn Computer Museum, talks about the origins of Microsoft Word and its funky file format: Charles Simonyi and most of the BravoX team left Xerox for Microsoft as a group, around about 1982 or 1983. The first version of MS Word, which… Continue reading Word History
Atlantic Monthly article on David Allen
Atlantic Monthly article on David Allen. There's a 6-page article on me and GTD in the current (JUL/AUG) issue of Atlantic Monthly, in case you haven't seen it. Jim Fallows (senior writer for them, former editor of US News) has been following my stuff for a while, and I think did an admirable job of expressing… Continue reading Atlantic Monthly article on David Allen
21 Rules of Thumb for Shipping Great Software on Time
21 Rules of Thumb for Shipping Great Software on Time. Jim McCarthy's essay 21 Rules of Thumb for Shipping Great Software on Time has wonderful advice for managing software projects. I couldn't say it better, and probably a lot worse. Shipping great software on time is a difficult but not impossible task. Elements you think… Continue reading 21 Rules of Thumb for Shipping Great Software on Time
Congress Looks Out for Hollywood
Congress Looks Out for Hollywood. It was a good week for Hollywood and record companies. Allies in Congress passed or advanced a slew of legislation that could outlaw a range of devices and software, and impose severe penalties on anyone caught trading files. By Katie Dean. [Wired News]
Microsoft, You’re not setting a very good example. I am disappointed.
Microsoft, You’re not setting a very good example. I am disappointed.. I know I am going to get myself in trouble for this… and will probably be banned from the Microsoft campus, but I saw a post by a Microsoft employee and felt compelled to respond. I am taking Aaron Margosis to task and following… Continue reading Microsoft, You’re not setting a very good example. I am disappointed.
NetNewsWire 2.0 progress report
NetNewsWire 2.0 progress report. We had hoped to ship NetNewsWire 2.0 before WWDC—or at least have a public beta released. But, well, I was optimistic. It looks like it will have to wait until July. Just so you know, here’s where it’s at… [inessential.com]