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CEO Rules Paul Craig Roberts: “Americans need to ask themselves if the White House is in competent hands when a $70 billion war becomes a $2 trillion war… Any financial officer anywhere in the world whose project was 2,857% over budget would instantly be fired for utter incompetence.”  [John Robb's Weblog]

We Need New Office Software I’ve been spending the last few days trying to clean out my enormous mail box, work on opinion letters and articles, and think about a Big Article on office software I’m working on. All that adds up to this thought: Here I am, looking at all this new office software,… Continue reading We Need New Office Software

KM at Morrison & Foerster. Morrison & Foerster is one of the leading US law firms for creating and developing an innovative and highly effective approach to knowledge management. Last month, Law Technology News published IT @ Morrison & Foerster: Lessons Learned from Retail (free registration required or PDF version at MoFo web site). I… Continue reading KM at Morrison & Foerster

Practice and Process Improvement – Part II. Last November I suggested that in law firms, it was not obvious who should be responsible for practice and process improvement. A new answer may be emerging. Hildebrandt consultant Susan Raridon Lambreth wrote an excellent article, How Do Practice Leaders Get Their Jobs Done and Still Have a… Continue reading Practice and Process Improvement – Part II

RIP, Frederick N. Young. Thoughts and prayers to Joyce, Shirley, Peg, Ann, Mary and the rest of the family.

Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality.  “Don’t start a business if you can’t explain what pain it solves, for whom, and why your product will eliminate this pain, and how the customer will pay to solve this pain. The other day I went to a presentation of six high tech startups and not one of them… Continue reading Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality

Quick ZFS links update. Following up from my last mention of ZFS There is the opensolaris welcome page The place where you can read what it is There are lists of docs And a pdf slide presentation from Jeff Bonwick that should make it difficult to keep your jaw from dropping open. Completely assuming of… Continue reading Quick ZFS links update

Moving forward with microformats. If I were near Sandy, Utah, I'd love to attend the Asterisk users group meeting that Phil Windley mentions today. It would be fascinating to learn more about what people are doing with that open source PBX. Phil's announcement was interesting for another reason too. He's using microformats to transmit structured… Continue reading Moving forward with microformats

8 Years, 8 Observations, and 8 Goals. I’ve been running Tornado for eight full years now (in our 9th year). Every time I celebrate a New Years day I think to myself how amazing it is I’m still doing it. Why haven’t I quit yet? Believe me. The temptation has been there before. Right now… Continue reading 8 Years, 8 Observations, and 8 Goals

Paul Thurrott on Google Pack: “This bizarre collection of applications, each with its own distinct user interface, level of quality, and method of updating, actually does more to credit Microsoft's integration strategy than it does to prove the notion that Google knows anything about creating software.” [Scripting News]