Author: Vince Kimball

List of tunnel troubles grows longer. The Big Dig's tunnel leak problem is far more costly and extensive than Massachusetts Turnpike officials and private contractors have acknowledged, involving thousands of ceiling and wall fissures, water damage to steel supports and fireproofing systems, and overloaded drainage equipment, according to documents obtained by the Globe. [Boston Globe… Continue reading List of tunnel troubles grows longer

RESTful Flash. In response to my question — Can rich Internet apps be web-friendly? — Macromedia's Kevin Lynch has put together an example showing how to achieve RESTful Flash: This weekend I created an example showing how rich internet applications can display their current state in the URL as the user interacts locally. This enables… Continue reading RESTful Flash

Worksheet: Disaster Recovery Preparation for Exchange Server 2003. “The following checklist helps you to prepare for disaster recovery” … go print! [MS Exchange Blog]

SQL Server Express 2005. OK, so I'm about six months behind on this one but this is very cool stuff: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/express/ Bottom line: free SQL Server you can use in production with surprisingly few limitations. Everyone please send the folks at MySQL a thank you note, because I doubt MS would have done this without… Continue reading SQL Server Express 2005

Anguished O'Malley explains fiscal crisis. In a dramatic plea for understanding, Archbishop Sean P. O'Malley yesterday described his effort to close parishes as “personally repulsive to me,” but he also urged Catholics to understand that the sweeping reorganization of the Boston Archdiocese is necessary because of the shrinking number of priests and a financial crisis… Continue reading Anguished O'Malley explains fiscal crisis

Boston Law Librarians program on blogs. On Wednesday, I will be speaking about blogs to the Association of Boston Law Librarians. [Robert Ambrogi's LawSites]

my dream library. Sometimes, on the weekends, when the sun is shining in and I've had a lot of coffee and all is right with the world, I think about what kind of library I'd have, if I had my own library. This is, of course, crazy talk. Libraries exist in communities, they're not started… Continue reading my dream library

Cool Tool. Konfabulator, a great MacOS utility for putting functional “widgets” on your desktop, is now available for Windows. Woohhoo! [Werblog]

Skype Stats. An update on Skype's P2P voice over IP service, courtesy of Jeff Clavier: * 13M+ users registered * 1M+ simultaneous users reached for the first time a couple of weeks ago * 2,384,686,217 minutes served, as I type this – i.e almost 2.4 billion minutes. Just to put things in perspective: Vonage has… Continue reading Skype Stats