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Radio 8.1 Pre-Release. The first new version of Radio in a while will be released the third week of September. This version has some great things in it – all based on requests from users. Steve Kirks lists what that made it into the 8.1 release and what didn't make it in this post. Radio… Continue reading Radio 8.1 Pre-Release

More IA Heuristics – Search. Lou Rosenfeld shares some more IA heuristics, this time focused on search. [ia/ blogs]

Meta-mail. In an item entitled personal message deflection, Phil Windley says he'd like to move his process-related communication out of email and into task-oriented software. Here's the glitch: One problem with moving from a single general purpose tool like email to multiple special purpose tools is split focus. To understand what I mean, think about… Continue reading Meta-mail

Blogs for law firm CIOs. Via Jeff Beard's blog, I came to read Ed Schembor's useful posting, Blogs and the Law Office IT Director: 21 Blogs of Interest for a Law Firm CIO/IT Director. Schembor, founder of Easy Access Software, lists blogs that he finds “ideally suited to the knowledge needs of a senior project… Continue reading Blogs for law firm CIOs

Avalon prediction. Avalon prediction: Miguel de Icaza works on GNOME and other projects, and ventures to see the future: “My prediction is that Avalon v1 will be a throw-away: it is not really the foundation on which you will build applications: V2 will likely not be backwards compatible, they will have to re-architect bits of… Continue reading Avalon prediction

Exploring Micro-ISVs. Eric Sink examines the world of one-person software companies in his latest MSDN “Business of Software” column. Thanks for including me in your list of examples, Eric! (via .NET Undocumented).  [Nick Bradbury]

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. 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. 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

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