Month: November 2005

A better model for the future?. Paul Graham is right on the money with The Venture Capital Squeeze. Not so much because he labels me “a better model for the future” (though flatter always helps), but because he once again highlights that the future of software is not to accept that status quo and just… Continue reading A better model for the future?

How do you rebuild a city?. This article is worth reading.   The Urban Land Institute is a national nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., that has been engaged to create a blueprint for the city’s redevelopment. This is exactly the sort of thing that is going to make this a better city.  They are having a… Continue reading How do you rebuild a city?

Mark Morford on de-cluttering (and the SF reuse culture). Why Do You Have So Much Junk? / Oh yes you do. And there are TV shows to prove it. Question is, what are you gonna do about it? The always-enjoyable Mark Morford has a cure for the clutter in your life that doesn’t involve gnashing… Continue reading Mark Morford on de-cluttering (and the SF reuse culture)

Users v. Service Providers. Tom Evslin explains the inherent conflict between users and network operators: “You, the user, almost always benefit by having a network you are participating in be open. The leading service providers whose networks you use almost always benefit by keeping networks closed.” We take for granted that basic Internet transport is… Continue reading Users v. Service Providers

Question of judgment: Blair left bloodied as Blunkett is driven from office again. TONY Blair hit the lowest point of his premiership yesterday, losing David Blunkett from his Cabinet and his ability to push his agenda through in the House of Commons. [The Scotsman]

FileChooserDialog/Widget in iFolder. Now that we've moved iFolder to Gtk# 2 (in CVS Head), we can finally use a better FileChooser. Here are some screenshots of the new dialogs that are checked-in to CVS. [Boyd's Blog]

FUSE!. I feel like the last person in the world to learn about sshfs via FUSE. All I can say is wow, I threw away all my Nautilus GNOME VFS shortcuts and went with this instead. Performance and reliability already seem far far better than the built in GNOME way. I also like that all… Continue reading FUSE!

On iFolder…. After meeting up with Calvin and Brady in Boston for the GNOME Summit, I promised to blog about my usage of iFolder and things of that nature, and pass along ideas and stuff as I ran into them. So, we've been running an iFolder simple-server at work for about 4 months now, and… Continue reading On iFolder…

Radio UserLand and Web 2.0. I've tried to write this post several times, never quite knowing where to start or stop. Instead of making this more structured, I figured I'd ramble a bit. The title is a misnomer, but we'll cover it at some point, OK? First, I'm in the Russ Beattie camp that the… Continue reading Radio UserLand and Web 2.0

Ray Ozzie's talk began pretty exciting, but the gist of what he was talking about is basically what people call Web 2.0. Like Tim O'Reilly's initial description, they leave out RSS too, even though most of their mission is the mission of RSS. I wonder how many people in the room have spotted that. [Scripting… Continue reading Ray Ozzie's talk began pretty exciting, but the gist of what he was
talking about is basically what people call Web 2.0. Like Tim
O'Reilly's initial description, they leave out RSS too, even though
most of their mission is the mission of RSS. I wonder how many people
in the room have spotted that. [Scripting News