According to News.Com, Philadelphia is considering a city-wide wireless network. Wow. That would instantly make Philly the place to be. I never thought I could possibly say that. Here's another thought for Republicans to consider. Imagine if the trillion dollars we're pouring into Iraq infrastructure had been put into providing across-the-board wireless in every major… Continue reading According to News.Com
Author: Vince Kimball
With Hurricane Approaching, Florida Calls for Evacuations
With Hurricane Approaching, Florida Calls for Evacuations. About 300,000 residents in coastal areas of Palm Beach County were told to evacuate starting 2 p.m. Thursday. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. [The New York Times > Home Page]
Steve Ballmer at the Massachusetts Software Council
Steve Ballmer at the Massachusetts Software Council. This morning the Massachusetts Software Council had it's Fall Membership Meeting. The two speakers were Dr. Jack Wilson, President of the University of Massachusetts, and Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft. I give an overview of Dr. Wilson's talk and a much more detailed description of Steve Ballmer's in… Continue reading Steve Ballmer at the Massachusetts Software Council
Wine
Wine. At Hypertext '04, I spent a delightful day touring Napa with Hugh Davis, who knows more than somewhat about wine. Hugh had brought a handy little bookshelf of well-written wine books for plane reading; as soon as I got home, I sent off for a copy of each. Jancis Robinson's How To Taste suggests… Continue reading Wine
Spammers using sender authentication too, study says
InfoWorld: Spammers using sender authentication too, study says. But Wong, who co-authored both the SPF and Sender ID standards, said that stopping spam was never the intention of SPF or Sender ID. The technology is merely a way to stop one loophole spammers use: source address spoofing. Evidence that spammers are publishing SPF records is… Continue reading Spammers using sender authentication too, study says
Client-Centric Marketing: What Clients Want
Client-Centric Marketing: What Clients Want. From the excellent SmartPros newsletter: Client-Centric Marketing: What Clients Want makes a compelling case for August Aquila and Bruce Marcus's Client at the Core: Marketing and Managing Today's Professional Services Firm. Here are some excerpts from the review's excerpts from the book: Because clients are more sophisticated in the ways… Continue reading Client-Centric Marketing: What Clients Want
Today's five-star site: LLRX
Today's five-star site: LLRX. Since its creation in 1996, LLRX, an innovative Webzine for legal professionals, has remained on the cutting edge, spotting new trends, zeroing in on key developments, and often being first to report important news. Completely free, it is updated monthly [Robert Ambrogi's LawSites]
WSJ
WSJ. Negroponte hits the claxon over Iraq. John Negroponte, who arrived at his post in late June, described the dire security situation in a lengthy cable sent last week to his superiors at the U.S. State Department. The new U.S. ambassador to Iraq, arguing that the insurgency there has become more protracted than anticipated, wants… Continue reading WSJ
Good to great @ Macromedia
Good to great @ Macromedia. For $1,300 you can get a one year subscription to Macromedia Devnet, which includes most of the company's web authoring tools, including Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks. Unfortunately, Devnet does not include Robohelp and Robodemo. I don't understand why… including these products would increase the value, and expose more developers to… Continue reading Good to great @ Macromedia
Fired for Blogging
Fired for Blogging. No, not me. (But would it surprise you?) It seems that Friendster, who had no policy at all on employee blogging, has fired Joyce Park. You may remember her from such debates as Java vs. PHP. Or maybe her book. Or maybe mod_pubsub (blog). Take a minute. Go read her blog. See… Continue reading Fired for Blogging