Month: August 2004

Programmers Devise New Ways to Make the Pieces Work Together. A host of new programs for Windows-based computers can, in one way or another, be considered tools for thinking. By JAMES FALLOWS. [The New York Times > Technology]

Right on to 0xDECAFBAD. Here's another reason why I love the blogosphere and the time we live in. Leslie Michael Orchard has a speced out an Atompowered, client/server aggregator: Here's the post….. So, besides the funk, there's a little project in which I've gotten immersed. Here's a teaser diagram: It's a feed aggregator, my third… Continue reading Right on to 0xDECAFBAD

Bloggers Creating Businesses. From Blog Business World: 1. Creating businesses with bloggers 2. Finding Business Opportunities The money quote (and something to meditate on every morning for a while): “The qualties that make a great blogger are one that are required to become a successful entrepreneur. It's time to consider forming your own business, in… Continue reading Bloggers Creating Businesses

Dave Pollard on Expertise Finders. From Dave Pollard's must-read and aptly-named blog, How to Save the World: EXPERTISE FINDERS: POLLARD GOES LOOKING FOR ANSWERS Do you see the outline of the “law firm of the future” in this post? If not, you might want to read it more closely and think about it a little… Continue reading Dave Pollard on Expertise Finders

A “Power Drill” for KM. More shared research notes for my upcoming KM presentration. Lawyers absolutely will not cooperate with completing fields, creating or complying with taxonomies, or creating other useful metadata. The big question: are there ways to “route around” this self-defeating behavior that make more sense the trying to change behavior (which is… Continue reading A “Power Drill” for KM

Intermittent failure. Intermittent failure: Carmen Crincoli of Microsoft points out a frequent cause of intermittent failures which cannot be produced on demand: heat buildup. Things can change if your cooling vents or fan get too much dust. It's also a good essay on how people “on the other end of the phone” try to discover… Continue reading Intermittent failure

Novell to release enhanced Linux in fall. Upcoming release to fuse Novell technology with that acquired from Ximian and SuSE. … [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

There's something missing from Windows. An application that hooks into the outbound Internet message flow, and shows me where messages are going. This would allow me to figure out what spyware is running on my system even if the various utilities can't get rid of them. Then the next step would be to allow me… Continue reading There's something missing from Windows. An application that hooks into
the outbound Internet message flow, and shows me where messages are
going. This would allow me to figure out what spyware is running on my
system even if the various utilities can't get rid of them. Then the
next step would be to allow me to block traffic to certain servers.
That would disable the spyware. It seems that I should have control of
my machine at that level. [Scripting News

There's something missing from the search engines. I'd like to give it a name of a thing or a person and have it show me, in reverse chronologic order, what's been said about that thing or person. That would allow me to effectively create a custom weblog about a person or thing, even if there… Continue reading There's something missing from the search engines. I'd like to give it
a name of a thing or a person and have it show me, in reverse
chronologic order, what's been said about that thing or person. That
would allow me to effectively create a custom weblog about a person or
thing, even if there was no weblog about the person or thing. [Scripting News

Daleks back in the house!. Yay! The Daleks are back in for the new Doctor Who series. This is contrary to the previous announcement that the Daleks would not be included, due to a disagreement with the estate of the man who created the Daleks…. [LibrarianInBlack]